Ready yourselves!’ Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared.A great cry came from beyond the walls that were punctuated by musket blasts and Mullone readied himself...

For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.

Some people are just sad when there aren’t talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

We are drawn uncontrollably to each other and have no power to resist, only the tremendous desire to experience everything in its most intense form.

A lacerare e lacerarsi ci vuole un attimo.La pelle tira, leggermente arrossata dai cerotti. Mi accarezzo e affiora un sorriso. Calore. Pace interna o una cosa simile. Mettere le cose al proprio posto. Le ferite...

The defenders retreated, but in good order. A musket flamed and a ball shattered a marine’s collar bone, spinning him around. The soldiers screamed terrible battle-cries as they began their grim job of clearing the...

There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world.

Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.

If I am going to be a monster, the least I could do is be well fed!

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From ‘Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather’, by Robert Gately

I’ll find out who’s inside. Wait here and keep alert!’ Hallam rasped. He skirted the main path to skulk towards one of the shuttered windows on the building’s eastern wall. There was a crack in...

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb

Who the hell you think would be answering his phone?” I snarled.

The purpose of life is to seek harmony.

Before you sit down to listen to the news at seven, kneel down to ask God for the dew of Heaven

Life is paradoxical, but I believe that I could also be the same person I am today, if life would have cut me with happiness instead of pain.

You won’t find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

just in case” like many other petrified atheists.

It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

Oric t de puţin timp petrecuseră prima oară împreună, Brian reţinuse una dintre slăbiciunile ei: marea.

I am the Captain of my own life.

how long is forever when you can stop the time for a while to see…the sunrise?

Greydor will eat us!

. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d...

They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don’t usually make much trouble.

Ce e dragostea? E un v nt nebun care ne dă bătăi de cap, dar fară de care nu putem respira.

The ocean swells around us. Sometimes, we are in a bowl of water and sometimes on the top of the lip. The horizon curves.We are sitting on top of the world.In theory, anyone is on...

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

Marriage is not easy, I thought to myself. It’s not supposed to be easy. It’s two different people, from two different backgrounds, trying to build a life together for better or worse. It’s something you...

Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places...

Book is the best friend, have no demand, no complain

Whereas the Xerox researcher “was eager to juggle multiple threads of work simultaneously,” the skeptical questioner viewed his own work “as an exercise in solitary, singleminded concentration.” In the choices we have made, consciously or...

Sometimes your dream is so special that… you can’t kill it. You can’t die even if you try. Life will find a way to fulfill it, and a way to keep you alive. Because the...

My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire.

For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways – for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask...

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.

Their words also make it a lot easier for people to justify that shift — to convince themselves that surfing the Web is a suitable, even superior, substitute for deep reading and other forms of...

Sometime rhetoric was just another way to lie and impress persons, and he knew this

He stood just near the club’s steps, his back to me along the foggy English night, and it was not until I’d passed him and began my ascent of the many steps that I’d heard...

Il terrore non è niente, se non è accompagnato da qualcosa di visibilmente orribile. Non riesce a entrare sotto pelle in maniera disgustosa se non c’è niente in grado di nutrire la mente.

How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.

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They suffered with his death and she – she suffered with their reaction to it.

Looking can make you want. Wanting can get you thinking. If you want them to stop thinking, just give them what they want.

Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!

The present moment is the combination of future and past…so let’s live and sometimes, sometimes let’s just forget about the rest!