this is a book about something

Was it magic? Of course it was.

The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed to alternate the brain’s almond. They kept the people spellbound

Just because you do not know how they look like, doesn’t mean you cannot see them.

I lied to you,’ she said, hanging her head in shame, ‘more than once. In fact, I swore that my lies were truth. I can’t understand how it could have happened. It just came out...

You need to have faith and trust, Moira.””And a little bit of pixie dust?

And I’m thinking about the old man. He’ll be pounding on the glass right about now… or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he’ll be pounding and… will there be blood? I like...

Es war der Purpurne, der Ausgleich schaffte zwischen den Brüdern der ersten Brut. Er wusste um das Feuer in ihren Herzen und sorgte sich, dass ein Streit sie alle entzweien würde. So bat er die...

The room flashed brighter still and then gasps filled the room. They were all gathered around Roxy and she was unsure why. She didn’t feel any different, Hadn’t the spell worked ? Roxy opened her...

I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds...

Walking alongside his apprentice’s horse, Sethil Longmere, magus of the Third Circle, Magi Master of Dormir’s army, and a man who had seen more years than most men could count, did his best to keep...

Reminiscent of a diamond, she is gifted, privileged, and positioned to glisten.

The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement.

So how did it go? I sat on the toilet and ran a hand over my hair. Um… it’s still going, I whispered.It’s still going? Then what are you doing calling me?Well… it’s just that…What?How...

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on–a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth….but wisdom sneaks in through the ears….

Any time there’s something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.’ –Garion

As an artist, i live in fantasy and flirt with reality. I’m an emotional magician of sorts. I paint my feelings onto the abstract canvas of a waking dream. I suspend my concepts in the...

Doing what’s right is always simple. Not easy, perhaps, but simple.

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.

The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still...

it’s through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It’s also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and...

The Doctrine is the Ecstasy

I think the best time to stare off into space is when you’re going 65 on a motorcycle, provided you’re wearing your astronaut’s helmet.

Handing me a pen is like handy a madman a knife…at the end of it you know you’ll end up with a lot of broken bones, blood, and bodies – but it’ll be one hell...

But it wasn’t till he’d been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for his vacation. He was sitting in a café, out on the...

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

It all goes back and back,” Tyrion thought, “to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own...

The Dream Box wasn’t a place, but it was a destination. It wasn’t life, but it was a way of life. Reese wasn’t awake in the Meat Space the way he was in Cyber, where...

He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening...

Wow! It’s like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. “It’s God’s love. That’s stronger than any magic.” – The Demon Trapper’s Daughter

This is not my bedroom!

my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.” There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they...

It was a Saturday, soft and silent, when the Wind spoke for the first time.

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself.It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded,...

Chosen

I don’t have to stand and walk, I only have to open my eyes.

He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive.

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. – Tran

If I could have looked into the future to see what I would have become, I wouldn’t have become the person I was always meant to be. ~ lw

I guess, my advice would be the following: stay calm and do not let the panic seize you.

The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in...

That’ll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand,” I grumbled.

My thoughts of you are a rainbow in splashing ocean waves…appearing…disappearing in sacred depths of skies the grasps of mine reach to the highest… Will you, ah, long for kissing me tonight? so I could...

I love you all for bearing with me, whether I was asking your opinion on the best sources to base the magic in the book off of, hearing your suggestions on wording, or having an...

‎”Your heart is in your chest. It supplies the blood to your cells. Even if you don’t think about it, your heart is always pumping. The heart is the most important organ in the body....

She must die.

Shut up,” Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. “I don’t think you’re stupid.” He closed his eyes “I think you’re the smartest person...

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the...