And as she jogged out of sight, they could hear her muttering, "Tentacula. Devil's Snare. And Snargaluff pods. Yes, I'd like to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In… — K. M. Soehnlein Copy Share Image
Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
She smiled then, an adorable, sweet smile that took his breath away. He forgot all about trying to maintain an air of… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I heard voices muttering in my head, and a lot of the time the world seemed to smolder around its edges.… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
She suffers as a miser. She must be miserly with her pleasures, as well. I wonder if sometimes she doesn't wish she… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust… — John Green Copy Share Image
Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I matched my heated tone with one of pure ice. "I believe I did attempt to relate to you the facts of… — Deanna Raybourn Copy Share Image
...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die?… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Mister Dresden," he said. "And Miss Rodriguez, I believe. I didn't realize you were an art collector." "I am the foremost collector… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf… — A. P. Herbert Copy Share Image
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
June cackled with delight, muttering, "Whoops!" as a car almost killed them. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts… — Frances O'Grady Copy Share Image
Are you kidding?" She looked at me as if I'd just dropped from the moon. Her cheeks were bright red. "What's the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
