Long ago she’d clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

Think ere you speak

Moonlight does things to a street scene that no other natural or man-made phenomenon can effect. People walk slower, their smiles lingering on contended faces. Horses that usually move along fast enough to stir up...

Through enjoyment we endure.

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.

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...

No, It’s not fair. But I was thinking more along the lines of the Pentagon and Washington itself. Sometimes I suspect that those who are running things might grow addicted to power. Secrecy’s essential in...

When we decided to move West, I worried about how to defend my family and my stock from Indians, but I never worried about inheriting one!”–from Prairie Grace when Georgia’s father Thomas realizes gravely ill...

I will not stand by and let any man believe his death is an act of one of the gods. They don’t deserve the credit. This is just nature, a side effect of mortality –...

I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet under the steps is standing ajar. He closes the door and latches it.

If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but...

If you can write, you can read. And if you can read, you can better understand the world and its different societies. Knowledge is the key to destroying prejudice and individual hate, which always culminates...

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.–Ray Bradbury

I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he’s come to collect on the debt.

Alana Marks had always known she was different. From her gypsy childhood, to the way she now made her living in the movies, she’d always lived on the edge. She’d been paid to leap from...

I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he’s not, my mother said.

One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.

Septimus grinned. “It’s not coins I seek. I seek the power of Hercules.

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

All of my books are acts of subversion disguised as historical fiction.

It is dark and there are bad creatures in these woods.””Yes, there are…

Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Whenever doubts become a crime… whenever parents become afraid their children might turn them in; a country where the power of the government is mired inextricably with the jurisdiction and the executive, where you have...

…it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre…

Sapphires for my bride-to-be and a severed head for the king my brother,” said Duke Richard cheerfully. “As St Paul pointed out, gifts may vary but the spirit is the same. In the present instance,...

She is a jewel far richer than a mountain of coin could bring!

If you have found a woman who can stir both body and spirit, sir, do not give her up lightly. Do not. The alternatives can be damnably complicated. [Joseph Warren]

You know, Dorothy, you can’t let people bring you down so easily or you’ll have your nose in the dirt for the rest of your life. From what I make of it, for every person...

Son of a beast tried to bite me when I turned my back to the billets!”…Nostrils flaring and ears pinned, the grey repeated the offense. “He wants another go at it. Be a sport ol’...

A Quote from Monty’s journal in GOD MUST BE WEEPING. “I felt as anonymous as a grain of sand.

business.

The only thing he was sorry for was slamming the door and perhaps raising his voice to the woman who’d been like a mother to him since the passing of his parents. Perhaps she hadn’t...

It would be, like all of Pammy’s parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.

Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.

You’re a lady. It’s written all over you, but the West doesn’t forgive any woman-unless she’s got a man.

She raised her head and saw a squadron of fighter planes. She stretched her hand high as if she could grab hold and climb away from what she had done, from who she was.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

That is our Shield Ring, our last stronghold; not the barrier fells and the totter-moss between, but something in the hearts of men.

Jess Pepper’s review of the Avalon Strings:’In a land so very civilized and modern as ours, it is unpopular to suggest that the mystical isle of Avalon ever truly existed. But I believe I have...

Once you’re labeled as mentally ill, and that’s in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness.

…The queen’s mocking laughter cut in. “This is your treasure, Lord Sheftu?””Aye. The greatest treasure in Egypt—a maid whose loyalty cannot be bought. Whatever bargain we make, Daughter of the Sun, must include her freedom.

Every great day has a story and a song!

He had panicked. Tessier cursed his own stupidity. He should have remained in the column where he would have been protected. Instead, he saw an enemy coming for him like a revenant rising from a...

Something like that. He’s our man.

Shameful! It is downright shameful that so-called men of God would use religion to manipulate people.”–from Prairie Grace when Thomas learns how the Indian agents and others are stealing from Native Americans

I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say...

Before I disappear behind the door, I stop and turn around to look at him.

Midnight Omen Deja vu” – Because everyone should experience love in the Caribbean…at least once in a lifetime.