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| 3df3a0d | In the top drawer of my bedside table, there's a small box. It contains everything we need to make our night pleasurable. If you have to, leave everything else behind but bring that box." She snorted as if in derision--but it was a weak snort. She walked toward the steps again. "Amy." She turned back to him. "What?" "Did you notice I didn't ask for a nightshirt?" She glanced at his lit in her hand and wondered why he told her that. Then she.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| f26ccd7 | Jermyn's breath stilled. He watched intently. So far, she had followed his instructions. Now he waited to see if she would follow his last, insistent direction. He bent his will on her. If thoughts had power, then his directive would surely be followed. She gathered the clothes, wrapped them in a piece of brown paper and tied them like a package with a string. She thrust the package into a large cloth bag that hung by her belt and started .. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 8fec632 | Amy tossed in her bed, then froze as she heard Northcliff's voice in her head. A shiver ran up her spine at the memory of Northcliff's words, but it wasn't fear. It was desire. She wanted to rise from her bed and go to him. She wanted to see him. Not just his face or the expanse of his chest, but all of him. Because while he said he had been imagining her, she had also been imagining him. In a motion so slow and cautious her ancient straw.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 40198db | Why do we have to go to Summerwind Abbey tonight? Why couldn't we have waited until I at least combed the sand out of my hair?" She heard the whine in her voice and realized she'd been reduced to petulance. With any luck at all, she'd become a nag and make Jermyn a dreadful wife." | Christina Dodd | ||
| b1a67b6 | When I break a rock open with my pick, I'm a prophet. I see the past. I see the future. I know where the world is going, and where it's been. And I always, always want to know more. | Christina Dodd | ||
| da40ffb | If Amy had one ounce of romance in her soul, she would be sighing with gratification. Instead, she said acerbically, "All that's missing is the love poem." Jermyn deposited her in a chair by the table. "I'll order a pen and ink for you." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 45ef581 | I can't take this kind of suspense. Decide now." He untied the ropes around her wrists. "Walk out the door. In a year you'll be free of any entanglements with me. Or stay and be my wife. My real wife. Make your choice." She looked down at the loosened ropes still wrapped around her, then up at him. He wore an expression of fierce indifference, but she knew better. This proud man, this noble marquees, had made up his mind he wished to marry .. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 4060833 | That's the master bedchamber, remember? You've been there collecting my underwear." "That's right. You're the swine who sent me on a fool's errand when you could have gone yourself." She observed his expression. "You did go yourself!" "I saw you there," he admitted. "Did I call you a swine?" Remembering the drama with which she sneaked into Summerwind Abbey, she didn't know whether to laugh or shout. "Louse, rather!" "Yes, but you must forg.. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 635e7ef | With well-feigned impatience, he asked, "Don't you recognize a man who's urgently trying to impress his woman with his good deeds?" "No, is that what you're doing?" "Most definitely." He did kiss her, but only a swift brush of his lips, a tease that made her want for more. "Although I suspect it has lost its impact since I had to point it out." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 3f8006f | Ah, Lord Northcliff, how well you look this afternoon!" "Thank you. I feel well indeed." Taking Amy's hand, he held it in both of his. "As long as my princess is nigh." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 5c38245 | So you know you're a ghost?" I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?" -- | love-story romantic-suspense | Christina Dodd | |
| b77190b | I've been a foul-mouthed knave." "Well, I don't know." "A beetle-headed malfeasor." "Nothing so--" "A base, proud tottyhead." He paused, but she said nothing. "Aren't you going to object?" "No," she drawled the word. "Humility is so refreshing in a man." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 1f39d3a | When at last he could lift his head, he asked, "What have you done?" "What have I done?" She lifted a mocking brow. "Why, I've kidnapped the marquees of Northcliff." "You dare to admit it?" Inch by painful inch, he dragged himself onto the cot. "Admitting to it is the least of my sins. I it." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 070b4a7 | No woman would come up with a plan like this, much less be able to execute it." "I'm depending on that kind of thinking. Everyone will imagine you mad when you say a woman took you--if you even dare to admit it." She inclined her head to him in mocking homage. "Women don't have the ability to sustain a thought long enough to put such a plan in motion." "Actually you're right." She grinned, not at all offended. "It took two women." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 873141d | So you know you're a ghost?" I looked at my hands; they were transparent and glowed faintly. "Can you think of another explanation?" | love-story paranormal suspense | Christina Dodd | |
| 5a3e063 | And you're prickly enough about being young." She was amusing him. "More than ever, I feel as if I've robbed the cradle." But she knew how to puncture his mirth. "You are very old," she agreed demurely. He pushed her backward onto the grass. She laughed and fought him. Within minutes he had her arms trapped over her head, and he kissed her while the world whirled around them. "I win!" he said against her lips. "Only because you used brute .. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 694f85a | You really owe me a lot for locking you up. It's improved your character immensely." She didn't giggle well. It wasn't in her character and it showed him only too clearly the fight he had ahead to keep her with him. He smiled as she wished him to do and said, "I'll give you what's coming to you. Don't worry about that." | Christina Dodd | ||
| 0c17104 | Tis knowing God created Eve from Adam's rib, the spot that protected his heart. 'Tis knowing without that rib to protect him, a man is vulnerable. 'Tis knowing you're created to be at my side, not under my feet. 'Tis knowing we're one body, one mind. | Christina Dodd | ||
| 76b90e2 | It's strange how concepts can erode so easily, how words we once used lightly can alchemize abruptly into something toxic. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| fe7e3f0 | More than eighty thousand undocumented children from Mexico and the Northern Triangle, but mostly from the latter, had been detained at the US southern border in just the previous six or seven months. All those children were fleeing circumstances of unspeakable abuse and systematic violence, fleeing countries where gangs had become parastates, had usurped power and taken over the rule of law. They had come to the United States looking for p.. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| 29edd44 | When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams--this may be madness. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| d8dfd25 | New families, like young nations after violent wars of independence or social revolutions, perhaps need to anchor their beginnings in a symbolic moment and nail that instant in time. That night was our foundation, it was the night where our chaos became a cosmos. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| 5440bba | It is easy to find oneself so wrapped up in the end result that one pays too little attention to the small steps it takes to arrive there. | Lewis Perdue | ||
| c82de3a | Question No. 6 Briefly outline the historical development of castles in western Europe. What, if anything, do they have to do with cannoli? By the way, is "cannoli" singular or plural? Are the vanilla kind better than the chocolate? Question No. 7 Tell why you like reading stories about dragons and castles and fairies and that sort of thing. Have you ever read, say, A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust? Compare and contrast this b.. | John DeChancie | ||
| 8cf3ce3 | Fostering magical thinking, the chivalric romance yields a space-time in which the marvelous co-exists at all times with mundane routines. Its magic is able to envision the invisible, to endow the amorphous with palpable shape, and to place illusion and reality on the same level. Concurrently, the romance reminds us that it is essential to value the magical realm's irreducible alterity and inscrutability, rather than attempt to tame it by r.. | chivalric-romance fantasy | Dani Cavallaro | |
| 18cc689 | The Catholic Inquisition is well-known for its persecutions, but the Protestants were no better. An infamous example of Protestant evil, an example given by Thomas Jefferson, is the execution of Michael Servetus. A Spanish physician, Servetus wrote that the doctrine of the Trinity makes no sense, that it contradicts the idea that there is only one God. Servetus was condemned to die by the Catholic Inquisition, but he wasn't present, so they.. | Russ Kick | ||
| cdf7de8 | Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source of religious authority? For the Christian the question takes more specific form: What is the relation between the authority of ones own experience and that claimed for the scriptures, the ritual and the clergy? | Elaine Pagels | ||
| 13b39b1 | This debate over Genesis revealed a major disagreement among second-century Christians, a disagreement whose outcome would shape church doctrine ever after. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| 1d927a1 | Jesus says, "Do not look here, do not look there, for the Kingdom of Heaven is within you." | Miguel Conner | ||
| 95a30cd | The controversy over resurrection, then, proved critical in shaping the Christian movement into an institutional religion. All Christians agreed in principle that only Christ himself--or God--can be the ultimate source of spiritual authority. But the immediate question, of course, was the practical one: Who, in the present, administers that authority? Valentinus and his followers answered: Whoever comes into direct, personal contact with th.. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| dabd80b | The Gospel of Philip takes up the same theme: Jesus took them all by stealth, for he did not reveal himself in the manner [in which] he was, but in the manner in which [they would] be able to see him. He revealed himself to [them all. He revealed himself] to the great as great ... (and) to the small as small.69 To the immature disciple, Jesus appears as a child; to the mature, as an old man, symbol of wisdom. As the gnostic teacher Theodotu.. | Elaine Pagels | ||
| aee07e2 | Was Gnosticism a Platonic pre-Christian cult or a later Neoplatonic Christian sacrilege? | Miguel Conner | ||
| e738f55 | When you read words like that in a book, beautiful words, a powerful but fleeting emotion ensues. And you also know that soon, it'll all be gone: the concept you just grasped and the emotion it produced. Then comes a need to possess that strange, ephemeral afterglow, and to hold on to that emotion. So you reread, underline, and perhaps even memorize and transcribe the words somewhere--in a notebook, on a napkin, on your hand. | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| a8c8cc7 | El problema con los criollos, y hasta en mayor grado con las criollas, es que estan convencidos de que merecen una mejor vida de la que tienen. La mente criolla esta convencida de que bajo la corteza del craneo porta un diamante que alguien tendria que descubrir, pulir y poner en un cojin rojo, para que los demas se admiren, se pasmen, se den cuenta de lo que siempre se habian perdido. | mexicans méxico | Valeria Luiselli | |
| cca5e7e | Writer and former Border Patrol officer Francisco Cantu has written poignantly about these death maps and all the "clearly marked ghosts" that dot the wide deserts in the southern United States." | Valeria Luiselli | ||
| 74c7062 | Memory is the medium of the must-have-been. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| d674a79 | Thinking, then, is not conscious. Rather, it is an automatic process following a struction and the materials on which the struction is to operate. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| dbb75e0 | What was then an augury for direction of action among the ruins of an archaic mentality is now the search for an innocence of certainty among the mythologies of facts. | Julian Jaynes | ||
| 9a4d43f | At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 9176ec9 | To my surprise, I discovered that anesthesiologists are a bit in the dark themselves. "How anesthesia works has been a mystery since the discovery of anesthesia itself," writes Michael Alkire, an anesthesiologist at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine, in the new Encyclopedia of Consciousness." | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 406468b | And of those responding neurons, 51 fired in response to only a single person or thing. One neuron responded only to Halle Berry, for example. Amazingly, the "Halle Berry" neuron responded to any picture of her, including one in which she was dressed as the masked Catwoman. Even the name Halle Berry triggered that neuron, which was silent at the sight of other actresses or their names." | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 81d6353 | He might breed them for years before reaching the proper form. After a few years of breeding a type of lily, Burbank found a single specimen that met his standards. A rabbit ate it. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| 3df2a4d | It may be hard to imagine a world before antibiotics, but now we must imagine a world where antibiotics are not the only weapon we use against bacteria. And now, ninety years after Herelle first encountered bacteriophages, these viruses may finally be ready to become a part of modern medicine. | Carl Zimmer | ||
| ea91128 | Among children who grew up in affluent families, the heritability was about 60 percent. But twins from poorer families showed no greater correlation than other siblings. Their heritability was close to zero. | Carl Zimmer |