You wouldn’t believe how boring of a job it is, tasting food to make sure it isn’t poisoned.

If you put your heart, mind and soul into it, there’s nothing you can’t do!

If, Your Highness, is a word that will steal your soul. Do not waste your thoughts on ifs. What is done is done. Look to the future.

Curious about these new entities, the elementals asked why the gods were in the shape they were.”We are bipedal,” Erebus said. “We wish to be distinguished from the animals.””What are animals?” an elemental asked.”We’re not...

Take courage. You do not yet see your own abilities because you have never been tested. You have never demonstrated to yourself or anyone all that you can do. Put your fears aside and trust...

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly...

Rise like the hero you were born to be, or die the slave you think you are.

Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to make it easy for them.

What are you about?” said the vehicle as a panel popped open to reveal delicate components. “I am not accustomed to such usage.”The little man said nothing, but began to rearrange connections and sever some...

There’s a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called ‘fan fiction’.

You can’t believe everything people tell you – not even if those people are your own brain.

Okay, I deserved that,” I admitted.

I don’t like this. I don’t like this. I don’t like this.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

Lanith? Don’t bewitch the Church boys. Their disappointment is a mess to untangle when they follow you home.

The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish….

He promised he’d never leave me. That we’d be friends forever.” “He was foolish to promise such things,

Grabbing someone’s ass doesn’t count as capturing them!

Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit.

I can’t imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A...

You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

I’ve always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

And you will spend the rest of your life wondering if I have disciples to avenge me. Hire your tasters, Burbesh. Until the Master of the Sleeps comes for you, you’ll never know a taste...

Haven’t you figured it out yet? I’m the wolf, Ryiah. I guess what I really should have told you was to never trust a prince, but that’s not quite as memorable.

In the privacy of my dreams, I’m a warrior.

Bring death to those of Evenfall.

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol’s dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate...

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.

I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then — dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways...

I know what it’s like to be invisible to other people.

Dreams are pathways for the heart. – Reminim the gnome

He may be stronger, but I’m not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That’s why he’s here. He wants me for what I can do after all.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what...

Non avevano imparato nulla dai loro errori, se non a portare la crudeltà a un nuovo livello di brutale raffinatezza.

Forcefully,” he winked.

The second wolf dove straight into the free platter. Fibres of flesh ripped apart with the same terrible tearing sound of sacking stretched and broken. Red sprayed. Limbs flailed. The bloody gurgle of a scream...

That definitely wouldn’t help your getting over me.

A Tangle of Green Men”]

Even now I ask myself, what would have happened if I had gone to the cove with Tansy that Thursday afternoon, instead of going to the beach? If I had stayed away from the boat...

You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

Cabeza de Vaca had wrapped her in his arms and in his language, whispering about a life she did not understand although understanding seemed to form just beyond the sea and sand, waiting there for...