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As for Percy, he held his magic ballpoint pen like he was trying to decide whether to bust out some sword moves or autograph Nike’s chariot.

The Blood of Olympus

So her safe little world would never be safe again... She knew that the nurturing hand also held the knife, and that was very unsettling.

Beauty and the Werewolf

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever c...

Virginia Postrel

Or is identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?

Ancillary Justice

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

About This Life

Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

The Apostle: The Life of Paul

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

Fuck, you’ve been to the sex store.” “Sure have.” Josh held up a plastic bag. “Man, that was fun. And by fun, I mean seriously fucking creepy...

His Roommate's Pleasure

She stretched beneath him, bare and aching, held captive by an entirely new form of magic, one she'd thought existed only in books and movies.

Heart of Stone

Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views.

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

With no one to confide in, she'd held the argument inside her own head and naturally found a way to dissolve facts into concepts and concepts into explanations that in the end explained nothing at all.

Interlands

My emotions still held a stubborn hope that humans could be loyal, that they could hold out against the promise of an easy life. But I knew better.

The Immortal Rules

We are always waiting, aren't we? All in a state of hesitation and held breath. Sometimes it's glorious like a storm at the end of a hot day.

I'll Be Seeing You

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Kushiel's Dart

No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.

Real Presences

His eyes burned with intensity. I wondered briefly if someone he knew was being held in that cold room that smelled like death. Someone he loved?

Red-Headed Stepchild

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

The Stranger's Child

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

Shaping the dream

The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is , and acted upon, the male is , the mover.

Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form

It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world’s in a rush to be beautiful.

More Than Human

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems