As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed soundlessly without any humor—"to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do." Clary's breath c...
Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine. You need a desk. I've often noticed how much you like to write. The way you eat up those advertising tablets from the store! I never s...
He’d spent the night in the boat. Next to the spaghetti queen. William glanced at the hobo girl. She sat across from him, huddled in a clump. Her stench had gotten worse overnight, probably from the dampness. Another night like the last one, and he...
(about William Blake) As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." And yet this creative power in Blake did not c...
He knew that people were staring at him. He looked different. Even different from other Erasers. He wasn't as —seamless. He didn't look as human as the rest of them did when they weren't morphed. He kind of looked morphy all the time. He hadn't see...
Why are you dressed as a man?" Neeva said. "Why do you act like..." She paused. "Why do you act like... like one of them?" Her voice rose, challenging and accusatory. she said again. "Where women aren't human, aren't people, just things--objects. She...
Rambo: We were in this bar in Saigon and this kid comes up, this kid carrying a shoe-shine box. And he says "Shine, please, shine!" I said no. He kept askin', yeah, and Joey said "Yeah." And I went to get a couple of beers, and the box was wired, and...
Sally Aiken: Ken Clawson told me he wrote the Canuck letter. Carl Bernstein: The letter that said Muskie was slurring the Canadians. Bob Woodward: Clawson. Carl Bernstein: The deputy director of White House communications wrote the Canuck letter. Whe...
Auri grew serious. “Now close your eyes and bend down so I can give you your second present.” Puzzled, I closed my eyes and bent at the waist, wondering if she had made me a hat as well. I felt her hands on either side of my face, then she gave m...
Toys? When a man—a dom—said toys, he didn’t mean stuffed animals or baseballs.
Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.
My head feels round," Simon said sadly. "So round.
He'll come back," Simon said again. "For you.
Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.
I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.
Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.
Citizen's arrest," he said. "Well, that, and Patch told me to.
My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands.
Jesus, he 's blogger," Pax said. "Arrest him, Deke.
