One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it’s all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can’t explain it.” ~Sam

I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape.

No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above...

But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single...

He was every angel and every devil.

I still watch her now, like I always did, and she watches me, her brown eyes looking out from a wolf’s face. This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf,...

I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

I’ve always had a lifelong interest in spirit. I was an 8-year-old boy – an 8-year-old adorable little boy. I just understood my grandfather had a ‘knowingness.’ I didn’t know the word psychic then.” (during...

Are you following me?” He asked.”Us?” I was the first to speak. “Um, maybe. Hi there. How are you tonight?”He looked at me like I might be a bit crazy.

I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.””How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

Jeez, you’re strong.” And you, Sam, are a conversational reject.

For as long as I’ve known him, Sam has been trying to out-run his demons. But he can’t see the truth. His problems – they never sleep, never take a break. They’ll wear him down...

How many beers do y’all think it takes before one internationally scientist turns to another and says, ‘Dude, bet you twenty bucks I can levitate a frog with a magnet?’ ‘ Sam drawled.

Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead. Sitting was intolerable. I stood up, paced, clenched and unclenched my hands...

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

He envied straight couples the easy openness of their relationships. At that moment, he would’ve given anything to know what it was like to take his lover’s hand without a second’s consideration for what anyone...

She whistled when she noticed my back. I assume because of my injuries. I mean, my ass just isn’t that spectacular.

Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Then the sculpture...

Forever?”Sam’s lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a lie.”Longer.

I continued to move my fingers across his skin exactly as I had before, but I needed to make a decision. I had reached for him, but I could back out of it by trailing...

Yes! That’s what all our talk about a decent world has been… just so much bullshit.””We did say it was still only a dream.””And a bloody useless one at that. Life’s a fuck-up and it’s...

A little girl learns about men through her Father.” Sam Cameron

He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand, he found trails of red. He had never cried in his life; in...

I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad...

I feel like I’ve been through a lot in the past couple of years, But I’ve kept pretty stable. That’s because I channel that emotion into performance. I can handle emotion as long as it’s...

Be careful, Hally.””Of what? The truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it.

Come live with us, Diana. Don’t argue. Just say yes.”Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, “Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day?

It’s probably as much as I appreciate yours.

I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part...

If you’re putting that energy into performance,” he said, “you’re also getting it back out again, right? You’re giving so you can receive.” He spread his arms wide. “If you were writing songs with it,...

We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous.

They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.

Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He’s for his people.

Sam came around the back of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is that?”I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicoloured pom-pom on top of...

What do you think we should do about Sampson?” I asked.”I would have to say…stop him,” Sam said.”How?” I asked her.”Someone who is as powerful and as smart and crazy as he is should do...

We can be heroes just for one day

Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

You’re not going to die,” I told her, lifting my head to look at her. “I’m not done writing songs about you yet.

Are you sure you want us to keep calling you ‘Six’?””You can say it’s short for something.””For what? Sixty?

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

Somewhere fate laughs in her far-off country, because now I am the human and it is Grace I will lose again and again, immer wieder, always the same, every winter, losing more of her each...

That better be a promise.

The silence was suddenly too charged, his face too beautiful in the light.

At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and...

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn’t reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole’s wolf tozin pumps through her veins,...

Sam reached his hand toward mine, and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile, he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff, and then another one. His...

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He’ll come back to this spot when the job’s done – if he manages it. And then he’ll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come;...