If I’d learned anything, it was that the gods never had good news – especially when it was delivered by the resurrected corpse of your worst enemy.

Okay, you’re starting to talk board game. Let’s go home, babe. I’ll get you into bed.

I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yellow acid spills...

This isn’t going to be a cute little storybook you can close when you’re done. You open this and you’re going to be letting things out you cannot possibly imagine. And believe me when I...

My name’s Jean Tannen, and I’m the ambush.

I no longer hated the whining, menacing dragonfly we rode in, but admired its grace as we surged towards the clouds, the lights of Edinburgh twinkling below us like the starry constellations of a world...

Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic.Curses bloomed.Girls bit into sharp apples instead of birthday cake, chocked on the ruby-and-white slivers,...

Nil Sine Magno Labore (“Nothing without great effort”) –Motto of Brooklyn College

I’m not a clever man, but I’m willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don’t try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don’t like...

I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

Riding a Dragon is amazing, exhilarating, and murder on the thighs.

Her caramel skin and curly beach sand hair spreads in wavy chops like the choppy storm waves on the ocean. Her fluffy rose colored lips glisten with eyes emerald green and almond shaped set deep...

Shadows of the world made shadows of the heart much deeper.

After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn’t stop her expectations from rising. She imagined herself transformed and beautiful, like Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, with her homemade dress and mysterious lace boots. She...

Everything changes, and there’s no denying that. But change isn’t always bad, as long as you hold onto who you truly are, and hold onto each other.

Oh, and one thing. Please, please don’t depend on me too much. I mean that. I’m not going to be of much help. If your plots come to a head—if things go wrong at the...

By the time I realized I even had a heart at all, it already belonged to you.

The thing to remember when you’re writing is, it’s not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It’s whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

Get lost in a story, in a dream fantasy…

Firnis lächelte gütig. “Bücher sind lebendige Wesen”, sagte er, “und wenn man ganz in sie eintaucht, dann erwachen sie zum Leben. Und wie die Gedanken, so bekommen auch die Buchstaben Flügel verliehen. Sie lösen sich...

Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on, and I must learn to live with myself…

Rabbrividì di nuovo. Ormai era lucida e poteva ricollegare i brandelli in una sequenza dal senso compiuto. Era davvero quella, la verità? Il mostro non aveva commesso la strage, ma la strage aveva creato il...

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego...

Into the sky to win or die.

Books pull you to other worlds … let them, and enjoy the adventure.

…Opal is dead, and I don’t see how a healer can change that! It’s not something to joke about.”Joke?” Then Owen hit his forehead and cried, “That’s right, you haven’t heard!”Heard what?” asked Adrien, who...

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up...

I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!’ ‘And I’ve tried living without you, and it just won’t do!

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Aquella arruga reflejaba dos características de su naturaleza: su mal carácter y su perenne perplejidad ante cualquier operación mental más compleja que sumar dos y dos con los dedos.

Not long ago-incredible though it may seem-I heard a clerk of Oxford declare that he ‘welcomed’ the proximity of mass-production robot factories, and the roar of self-obstructive traffic, because it brought his university into ‘contact...

On ne peut la voir, on ne peut la sentir,On ne peut l’entendre, on ne peut la respirer.Elle s’étend derrière les étoiles et sous les collines.Elle remplit les trous vides.Elle vient d’abord et suit après.Elle...

a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Life and light made up the interior, the realm of daytime. The exterior was darkness and night.

We are exiles in Time’s abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.

In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference.

The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.

No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands… that can do your brain.

Aurions-Nous échoué ? Au premier jour, Nous avons décidé de sceller la magie pour créer une nouvelle ère de paix pour les Hommes. Nos pouvoirs ont, depuis lors, été emprisonnés dans de vulgaires pierres disséminées...

She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the white wall. She beckoned to me. I took a step and another. I...

Come what may and hell to pay.

Ah yes, now you’re beginning to feel it. It’s so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart—if I...

Twango’s hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

Iron. Ice.A Love Doomed From the Start

I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased.

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be...

He listened gravely to the discussion of possible danger, but in truth, he paid little heed. Silvanoshei was young, and the young know they will live forever.