“I want a son with you,” he said huskily. “I want a houseful of children.”
Her eyes sketched his face. “Dark-haired little boys with green eyes….”
He crushed her mouth under his, roughly, hungrily, possessively. “Don’t tempt me,” he said tightly. “I want you like hell.”
“I wouldn’t stop you,” she said softly. “Anything you want, Garet. Anything.”
― Bound by a Promise
Her eyes sketched his face. “Dark-haired little boys with green eyes….”
He crushed her mouth under his, roughly, hungrily, possessively. “Don’t tempt me,” he said tightly. “I want you like hell.”
“I wouldn’t stop you,” she said softly. “Anything you want, Garet. Anything.”
― Bound by a Promise
“Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander’s adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.”
― Twelve Against the Gods
― Twelve Against the Gods
“There's an accent shift, on average, every 25 miles in England”
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“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic swallow who couldn't bear the prospect of flying all the way back to Africa again. An insomniac hedgehog who couldn't stand the thought of lying awake all winter with no one to talk to.”
― Spill Simmer Falter Wither
― Spill Simmer Falter Wither
“Taboos, though unadmitted, are potent. What is it that people fear? What they don't understand. The civilized man is not a whit different from the savage in this respect. The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.”
― The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
― The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
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