Tragedy often gives birth to courage, it offers man a platform to change what will be.”Eli Storm, Emanuel Stone And The Phoenix Shadow

You don’t smile enough, Coop.I smile, I tell her defensively. She puts a hand on my shoulder and squares off with me.But not like you mean it.

Wrangling the cat into the cage proved interesting, and Josie had several scratches before Clint bent down and let out a menacing growl. The cat took one look at him and with a disdainful sniff,...

For a moment, I felt sorry for him. The pain and disappointment of his life hung about him like a cloak. It permeated the air, giving him a rank and bitter scent. This, I mused,...

…, imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling, insurrection and slavery, just to name a few of the many instances of...

I wanted to hug him, tell him it was gonna be alright. Tell him I’m not as fragile as I look. But I can’t hug him. I can’t even hold his hand. I can’t tell...

I must have gone to the wrong island,” I said with a private laugh.

Laughter gurgled up from inside her. She’d just mugged a mugger. Look out, world.

Its done.’ Penteluck announced and scooped some onto a spoon for Zayne to drink.’No chance, you first. You’re already dead it won’t kill you if you drink it.’Penteluck frowned. ‘Zayne I’m already dead, how will...

Playing the martyr doesn’t suit you, Leila.’‘Maybe not, but playing the complete and utter bastard clearly suits you.

You all know why we’re here. The time has come for action. To be sure we are prepared, Maeve and I will be heading out to scout conditions. We shouldn’t be gone more than a...

We do have a highly-advanced biological device called the Illuminator,” Joseph chimed in

This is the moment I have dreaded, the very reason why we kept running, even when it seemed hopeless. We all seemed to believe if we kept running, we would never die. But what exactly...

Oh for craps sake. You’re not dying again, are you? It’s seriously inconvenient when you do that.” -Aphrodite

Owen remarked “The basis of science and art is magical – vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There’s not ever black and white…in magic or in anything to my way...

It’s a good day to do great things!

I write–because I must write.

It was never you. Leaving you was the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I’ve regretted that decision every second since the moment I walked out. I’ve made a lot of dumbass mistakes in my...

His father read aloud, quietly, his voice steady and gentle, while he pressed a hand to Liam’s delicate back, supporting his position….She realized Dragos was reading the quarterly profit percentages from a stockholders’ report.

If it is our destiny to be hit by the train, we will be hit by the train. The only thing we can change is how the train turns us into a hamburger.

Every man will tell you little boys should not play with dolls but ask any mother and they will tell you, every little boy has gone to sleep cuddled into one at one time in...

She wasn’t the type. Her idea of exercise was lifting a fork.

and…and…a gun. A big one.” – Colleen O’Brien

I’m determined.” (Violet to Doc)

Well, that could have gone better.

In lieu of Tasers, you’ll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I’ll turn into a bat to get away from you.””Fight or...

this stuff tastes like the bastard love child of grapes and rubbing alcohol

The room flashed brighter still and then gasps filled the room. They were all gathered around Roxy and she was unsure why. She didn’t feel any different, Hadn’t the spell worked ? Roxy opened her...

The functions of the human frame are, broadly speaking, known. They are a country, anyhow, that has been charted and mapped out. But outside that lie huge tracts of undiscovered country, which certainly exist, and...

There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when...

He would give up his wings and heaven for her, a woman he loved but would never truly belong to him, a woman he could never keep. He’d fall and be banished from the only...

She took a deep breath, “Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?” His expression turned very strange, almost as if she’d struck him, “yes,” he said finally. -Tana and Gavriel-page chapter 5

It was only that night, dreaming forbidden dreams of Laurence and the clear attraction he had already displayed towards her, that the dream was disturbed. She woke to pain, her eyes and mouth flashing open...

What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth. There was no cure for...

‎”Hayır!Duymak istemiyorum!”Gözlerinden,ıslanmış saçlarını çekmek için çabaladı.”Bugün neler atlattığım hakkında en ufak fikrin var mı?Birgün de ejderha alevinin içinde durmak zorunda kaldım.Hemde iki defa!””Ama ben…””Sessiz ol”Feraghus şaşkınlıkla sustu.”Ayrıca senin anne dediğin o soğuk o.. yüzleşmek zorunda...

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

She trusted him. Her heart knew him.And her body wanted him.

She glanced again toward Vincent. “And who is he again?”Vincent grinned. “I’m Vincent Blackman of the SpiderSly Company. Mirren and I are going to sleep together; we just have to get through this bullshit of...

Hurry up, Man, and do something. Kiss her, muzzle her…shove a sock in her mouth—

A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend.

When they had hurried to the train station with their violin cases, they had drawn almost as many stares as they would on any normal day when their hair was to their knees and sheeting...

Sensuality isn’t a crime,though you act like showing a little skin will kill you.

God is a supernatural being, and a paranormal experience.

What can I say? I prefer to die well-informed.”-Venom and Elena

Oh yeah? How about M’Lin the cursed?

It was deeper than some boy thinking she was cute. It was more like she was food and he was hungry. It was as if Mars needed her to survive.

You’ll get fired if anyone finds out about us!””So many rules in this century,” Vane muttered.

I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.

I love you. Forever, and a day.

This isn’t television! This isn’t a movie! Giles and Buffy aren’t gonna appear and show us how to deal with our wonderful new powers! Some fricking owl isn’t gonna come sailing in through your window...