The plant and animal kingdoms (excluding humans) offered some pleasant surprises. Organisms from these realms are much simpler to figure out. Their behaviours are not muddied by personality factors or flawed belief systems. If an...

The reader is the final arbiter.

The nation has been turned upside down and inside out. The country that was once discovered by people seeking religious freedom is now oppressing religious rights. It has been a slow train rumbling down the...

Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys’ you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the...

That sure as fuck ain’t no cow

Because no other girl has ever made me want to forget all my own rules for them.

When you go to sleep, where do you really go?

Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

What is my favorite part of book one? It would have to be the last chapter because that’s when the consequences catch up to Eric and it became clear that what he considered fun and...

Yeah, I get it. I’ll be cool as a well digger’s ass.”He jumped when the front door slammed shut, the harsh bang echoing around the trees.Mitch shook his head. “That well digger must be working...

Havens turned again.Someone else passed between the trucks. That someone walked with less purpose than the other workers near the stalls. To Havens this meant a surveillance asset was on him and it probably was...

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking,humankind is not listening.

You don’t kill someone you love, do you?

Sir, you do understand that – officially – I’m not actually a centurion. I haven’t even been assigned to a legion yet.’The general continued writing as he spoke. ‘What was the name?”Corbulo, sir.”Corbulo, you have...

At forty-one, he was still the quintessential bad boy—charming, at ease in his skin, and great-looking, with deep blue eyes, slicked-back brown hair, and the kind of full, sensuous mouth that bad boys seemed to...

If you want the best evidence of just how strong our democracy is, come into the courtroom.

Something was wrong with the devices themselves. Digging deep into the internal structure of the circuit boards with powerful microscopes, Simon’s team had discovered broken and incorrect connections, electronic dead-ends, short circuits, and nonsensical pathways.

Insanity is the only real escape from the banality of our lives. – Clara Bayliss

‘There’s no time for right or wrong,’ I said.

I’m not a bad person.

You keep distracting from the main point, Vaida. I did not come to Harare to study other people’s scars. I have my own to worry about. They make me sick. I will never recover from...

In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty.” Ned Low

I can’t wait for the day when we’ll never have to say ‘goodbye’ to each other again.

As the sun rules the day and the moon governs the night, so too, we are connected by: the air that we breathe, light that we see and the darkness that follows. Life is too...

When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?’He beamed. ‘Absolutely.’That was all I needed to hear. “Tea. A cup of tea.

Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.

If he’s like any other man I’ve ever met, it’s not my smile he’s going to be looking at.

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...

When you give in to bullies, you don’t just empower them, you encourage whatever methods they employ to achieve their ends; usually terror and violence. Meaning it’s the innocent who pay; mourners at a funeral...

Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan’s photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped...

Kenapa mereka suka sekali mencari kepuasan yang bersumber dari objek lain? Kenapa tidak mencari kepusaan dalam dirinya sendiri?

He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart.

He’d have denied it to his dying breath but Derwent wasn’t as tough as he pretended to be. For the very small number of people he cared about, Derwent would give his all. It made...

Because he wants her.

Recuerda lo que valga la pena recordar. Ignora el resto.

Thirty-two steps until Haley Tremaine entered hell. Thirty-two steps until she walked into the smell of alcohol and burned microwaveable meals, into a place where fear overwhelmed.

Oh dios mio, she makes me burn, she makes me need. She is etching herself into mi alma

Max?’ he asked.’Yeah?”…What are you doing?”Shooting people.

Wisdom Is The Principal Thing

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial

Abel Muranda fought off furious red ants with mandibles that could cut through a miser’s padlock.

I didn’t know that once you’ve proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you’ll never be free again.

will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind?

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

She had known it was bad, call it a mother’s instinct, but she’d known this was the knock that was going to scoop her insides out and leave her barely able to stand; merely a...

I had a quack in the floor. So, I had to use ductile.

Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously....