…some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet...

Uh… ,” Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration.”I’m kidding,” I said. “It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?””Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer?”I hesitated, wondering why...

And for me, it means honoring those who’ve loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice.Some sexy guy boots. Yeah.

Maybe that’s what love is. Giving others the power to hurt you and trusting that they’ll use it to heal you instead.

Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers...

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I’ve already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

Just so you know, I’ve trusted you since camp.

Sylph and Jodi return to my side, each carrying a cloth sack full of chickweed. I wrap my arm around Sylph’s waist and give her a quick squeeze. “Lesson’s over for today. I have something...

My God”, he whispered. What have I done to her? He thought, humbled. The spell was broken, but it wasn’t sealed, and her soul was bare to him, the scars of her tragic past and...

I reach up and pat them both on the head. “Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you’d be kissing him every chance you had, too.

As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him.

Talking to her is like coming home and finding the furniture in every room rearranged. The same pieces are there, the same sense of comfort, but nothing is exactly the where you’d expect.

You’re starting to understand.

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel.” (Something Borrowed)

These are the hands of Rachel Joy Scott and one day, will touch millions of people’s hearts.

Noelle slid up Rachel’s body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. “Ace has to make his choice,” she murmured, stroking Rachel’s lips. “He doesn’t get to lock you away from...

The central fact of biblical history, the birth of the Messiah, more than any other, presupposes the design of Providence in the selecting and uniting of successive producers, and the real, paramount interest of the...

Humans eat sand. That’s why they spend so much time on land”.

Fine,” she said. She threw her bag in the backseat and climbed in after.

Why didn’t Jacob simply refuse to go along with this bold, obvious swindle? Again, Robert Alter’s insights are invaluable. When Jacob asks, ‘Why have you DECEIVED me?’ the Hebrew word is the same one used...

Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic.””Sure you were,” Jason said. “You’re just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

I knew it! Not another list!