Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Fill’d with death, ya pens’ll hang ya.

My love for you won’t stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind blowing through the cottonwoods, that’ll be me, thinking of you,...

Even a goat got to be a goat.” Esperança’s comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

Stuff and nonsense: you must regard this deviationfrom your plan as part of the adventure that you soughtwhen you decided embark on it in the first place. Trueadventure does not follow well-trodden paths. Absenceof certainty...

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

As the sun lowered into the city’s skyline, casting an orange glow over the islands, Jana could feel people’s hopes rising.

What, did you think,” she asked, laughing as he struggled up the bank, “that I, a Gaulish maiden, could not swim?” “I did not think anything about it,” Malchus said; “I saw you pushed in...

…homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.

Venne un giorno che alla svolta del sentiero della Palascia la strinsi tanto fra le braccia da toglierle il respiro: alzò gli occhi verso di me e per la prima volta mi guardò in modo...

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?

Our lover is the sun, and we the stars forever floating in their glow. We push and push, yearning for our sun’s rays to reach out and touch us for just a moment in time…...

I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. But for most of us the hardened corners have soften...

She had wanted more than she could have.She had wanted him, and more… she had wanted him to want her.In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly...

On the black cotton was printed a white skull and crossbones – the skull head grinning as if he were mocking her. The nun struggled for her breath and wanted to drop the evil little...

Brother,” Artemis chided. “You do not help my hunters. You do not look at, talk to, or flirt with my Hunters. And you do not call them sweetheart.

It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can’t.

America at a turning point! But in 1813 the United States and Nathan Jeffries may lose everything; blockaded, imprisoned, raided, massacred, Americans are feeling the wrath of British forces on land and sea. Nathan Jeffries,...

If Mary’s blood is Spanish, at least it is royal. And at least she can walk straight and has control of her bowels.

Roger speaking to Brianna: It’s too important. You don’t forget having a dad.”You do remember your father?”No. I remember yours.

All that I was and the world that was mine are gone forever.

How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?

Quando mi voltai, mi trovai dinanzi a una figura avvolta in una cappa nera, lunga fino ai piedi. Urlai, indietreggiando per lo spavento. Mi scontrai involontariamente contro un quadro, facendolo cadere con un tonfo. Sentii...

God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.

{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain’t gonna be happy in heaven...

I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! – Otto Ray

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

Not strictly one of mine, but worth repeating! A very forceful old lady in these parts, when referring to the eight novels of the Angel Mountain Saga,was heard to say: “You know them books by...

The British could leave and half India wouldn’t notice us leaving just as they didn’t notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do...

All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh’s and the KIng’s, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the...

If anyone or anything tries to curse or kill the Goodness at the Center of all things, it will just keep coming back to life. Forever Easter.

Aaron reached into his jacket pocket and took out his Bible, a gift from his father, Captain Benjamin K. Matthews, on the the day he had ridden off to war. Aaron opened to the Psalms,...

I’d rather make a good run than a bad stand.

Mr. Edwards admired the well-built, pleasant house and heartily enjoyed the good dinner. But he said he was going on West with the train when it pulled out. Pa could not persuade him to stay...

Mogadishu the beautiful – your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of...

He is dressed in a long, white robe and in his hand is a white cap. I draw up as he passes down the hall; he does not see me. Shortly I hear a horse...

Life’s temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to...

Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks...

All good things originate with the Creator God, he’d been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.

I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday’s Departure

Think of this- that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.

You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it’s like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its...

As people’s hopes soared, Jana felt a tinge of fear.

The end is but a new beginning for the eternal “Ba.

Some day…as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future–

Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif’ up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for...

When you live in my house, you learn to be fine with whatever you come across. It’s the only way to stay sane in insanity.

Listen, my child, to the voices of your ancestors. Take pride in our accomplishments; find your strength in our suffering. For WE are not just voices in the wind, WE are a living part of...