Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic...

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it’s beginning to stretch its range as well.

You know the Prince song where the girl’s phone rings but she tells him, “whoever’s calling couldn’t be as cute as you?” I long to live out this moment in real life.

He didn’t say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I’d been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat...

He was a man’s man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through–and proud of it.

Emotions And Feelings In Life Are Like Water In The Ocean Which Will Never Dry

The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

With his revelation,…I shattered into a million shards. I felt each piece as it splintered and separated from the whole like a glass I had broken the day before. Debris flew everywhere. It left me...

How dare you come into my home? And hurt my family? I ought to tear your throat out right here, right now!

Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage...

Joel’s face swam across my vision and I blinked, goose bumps running up my arms. I shook his memory away, determined to stay focused, although my heart caved at the thought of his last words...

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they’d just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn’t translate through sports, or music, dancing,...

I was born into chaos. I didn’t know what peace felt like.

I had never seen the view at this time before, at the very pinnacle of night when sunset was far behind us and dawn had not yet risen rosy-fingered from the horizon. The night was...

There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least...

Gavin scratched his head, idly wondering what his father would tell him right about then. Probably steal the slave and run. Father’s solution was always to steal and run. But he had a job to...

Sing it again!” And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who’s there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be...

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?

Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.

All clichés aside, sometimes a girl just needed to cry in the rain.

Stories are full of people who find that, in extreme situations, they’re capable of so much more than they imagined they were. Real life is full of people who find that they’re capable of so...

La personalidad es un papel que se pliega para ocultar distintas facetas y mostrar otras, como un origami.

So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why...

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

There is only one reason that a man would take a nearly fatal knife wound for a woman,’ Gavril stated.’And what reason is that?’ Blaze asked.Gavril shrugged his shoulders and replied, ‘Because he values her...

There are no happy endings… There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we...

Cinderella of course,” Danielle giggled.

Allein zu sein ist nicht schlecht, wenn man in der Gesellschaft von Büchern ist.

Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to...

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets.”Pass through,” she said when Deborah reached her. “We saw you coming.” The wicket gate became a...

I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.

Erasing is exercise for the hands

Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book…...

S’ils participent tous deux des littératures de l’imaginaire, s’ils ont quelques points communs, comme par exemple leur localisation sur des planètes exotiques et la description de sociétés organisées selon des règles différentes des nôtres, la...

I would love to see her set you on fire.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

… where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.

You might think of the barrier between fiction and reality as being a bit like a blood-brain barrier, which allows only some kinds of molecules to pass from the bloodstream into the brain. Emotions can...

Ce n’était pas un trou déplaisant, sale et humide, rempli de bouts de vers et d’une atmosphère suintante, non plus qu’un trou sec, nu, sablonneux, sans rien pour s’asseoir ni sur quoi manger : c’était...

The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor...

Is it not enough to shine,To know that friends are true?That love is born of friendship,And who you are is you?

I don’t want to look. I’ve got to look.” Vance… “Vital Perception

I feel ill,” [Howl] announced. “I’m going to bed, where I may die.

We’ll free as many as we can and build an army in the forest. It might take years, but I won’t rest until every last Calorin is gone from these shores and my father is...

They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the...