It was our passion for words and our ardent desire to write that drew me and Michael together, and the same that drove us apart.Michael wanted to be a great playwright, like the former master...

If you are brave of heart, sharp of wit, strong of spirit and steadfast of purpose, there is nothing you cannot achieve

I also know that not everyone will like what I do, and that there are many people who do love my work, and so I write for them, and for my own pleasure, and try...

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last found my true path. I knew the story would change as I told...

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments...

Soeur Seraphina gently removed my lace fontanges. It was named for the King’s mistress Angelique de Fontanges, who had lost her hat while hunting one day and had hastily tied up her curls with her...

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING

By fire, fever, storm and sword, your blood shall suffer this bane. No peace or joy for Wintersloe’s lord, till the puzzle ring is whole again

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

Can we make promises to each other, as if we were truly married? Can we swear to be true and faithful and love only each other and all those things? Because I’m in such pain,...

There’s a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There’s magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in...