Maybe at the very bottom of it… I really don’t like God. You know, it’s silly to say I don’t like God because I don’t believe in God, but in the same sense that I...

Fantasies… who needs fantasies? I have memories.

It’s not a question of can or can’t. There are some things in life you just do.

The world of a cat is unlike any other. What is seen through their eyes cannot be understood by anyone besides another cat. Their world is filled with secrets and adventures that are always present...

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life

Love has an extreme capacity to offer everything we need but not without extreme pain. Anyone who tastes the sweet fruit -joy of love, deserves to taste the bitter fruit -pain of separation. Nobody should...

Comforting lies are better than a hurting truth, is my policy, but it’s impossible to lie in front of you

I couldn’t say the real reason for my call when he asked me, ‘Anything else?’ It was hard for me to end the call. There was nothing I could say to him directly, but there...

In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athletically difficult and possibly biologically impractical things involving its own mother, a few household implements, and a dead...

Love is an invisible force that makes you realize that reality is better than fantasy.

We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn’t that bad (I have a strong heart), it’s the sudden stops that are painful....

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of...

So why hadn’t he confronted me? Why hadn’t he torn through my lies and forced me to own up that I’d caught him in a Binding? It wasn’t like he could just brush this off....

It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a...

Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.

You deserved it.

Dear, ye do have a problem.

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone’s mind.

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know...

I’ve been deflecting Calypso’s blushes all day. I don’t have the energy to deflect yours,” he said through clenched teeth. “So either block or strip.” — The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I

The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture. ‘Where are we?” he asked Livia. “How can a whole other room be...

It’s funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time....

A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never read them, and people who make sure I...

Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it’s wrong to feel that way about God and I...

Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It’s inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged....

A un tratto lui ricambiò lo sguardo e la fissò, come se la stesse studiando. Poi, i suoi occhi acquistarono una strana sicurezza. “Sei tu”. E di colpo, tutto cambiò. Fu come se il cuore...

death is predestined for all mortals. Souls live forever, but the body does not. Unless you are immortal, both the soul and body are tied together.”~Taznikos Abyssos

If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth — yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes...

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.

Humans need fantasy to be human.

On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, with all the accompanying mystery and elevated language...

We fight monsters and unholy creatures for a living here. Grotesque, evil, violent, dangerous; they’re certainly all these things. And yet, we somehow manage to go to sleep each night and wake up each morning....

Mean people are meaningless.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story.

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine’s daughter, to be the catalist of it all.

Hammer does not think he will make it through this next winter. His breath comes short in his chest, and it takes much effort for him to get up and dressed. My body is still...

It’s funny how those we care about can create the same reaction that we get when we are facing down a monster ready to kill us.

Poor Uther. He believed that virtues are handed down through a man’s loins! What nonsense! A child is like a calf; if the thing is born crippled you knock it smartly on the skull and...

With mouths agape, they stared in awe at the floor of fire and wall of flame. Atop a horse of golden flames that whipped and licked the leather reins, untouched by the fire that twisted...

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. – Durzo Blint

When the mind is free, magic happens.

This was a Darkness born of fire.

I must find you. So I travel to the depths of hell and conquer perverse monsters and repulsive demons and the deceitful vicious devil himself to find the truth.

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

I hope our guest is delicious,” Flay comments as she looks Soar over. Is she flirting or does she plan on eating him?Maybe both.