Some words have multiple meanings. Scholastic, aware that I'm allergic to preservatives, kindly got someone to translate the phrase "I can only eat food without preservatives" into Italian. They warned me, however, as they taught me how to say it, that the Italian word for "preservatives" is the same as the word for "condom." So that I should be careful how I look when I say it.

There's a metaphor for the American public in here," Gansey murmered darkly, "but it escapes me at the moment.

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?

And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war.