He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levered herself up, wondering if she was meant to kiss this hand or not. But since she felt...

Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear… from my future Kids’ Funny Business.

If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science...

Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.

It’s not the fantasy of an impossibly handsome guy who can give you an orgasm just by stroking your nipples. It is instead the fantasy of a guy who can give you everything. Hapless, clueless,...

In every journey comes a moment… one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are… and who you want to be.

I understand the gist of your speculation,’ said Rhialto. ‘It is most likely nuncupatory.

Despite the chaos that was tearing her head apart, Tevi understood what scene Yenneg was attempting to play out, with herself as a conscripted actor. She needed to force out an explanation or denial, but...

Io sono Phèdre nó Delaunay de Montrève, e sono unica.

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

Thank you… fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.

Kammy jerked upright. It was as though the trees had parted beneath the pressure of the storm and a bolt of lightning had struck her. She had never entered the mouth for it had always...

She was murdered by rebels.’ He took in her unconcealed look of shock. ‘So there you go. Something for you to celebrate.’ Magnus turned away from her, ready to find solace in his chambers, but...

Because of the very nature of the world as it is today, our children receive in school a heavy load of scientific and analytic subjects, so it is in their reading for fun, for pleasure,...

The beauty of fantasy is that it allows the protagonist to pass through fear to come to know this different reality and to find a place in it.

The Evasive Cartwheel ™ © etc., Bartimaeus of Uruk, circa. 2800 B.C.E. Often imitated, never surpassed. As famously memorialized in the New Kingdom tomb paintings of Ramses III— you can just see me in the...

We both must burn this midnight oil together. You’re just as new to me as I am you.” –Andrew

And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to happen,” I said blithely.

If you rescue me from my pipe dreams, I’ll stop smoking fantasies.

[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and frustration – all the emotions that are an ordinary part of...

Git’er DoneThey beat their swords upon their shieldsTo no beast or man would they yield

sólo tiemblo por el frío, y sólo lloro por amor.

Ambre était le monde.Elle était le sens et la matière de la vie. Matt comprit en cet instant qu même s’il ne l’avait jamais rencontrée, elle lui aurait manqué. C’était au-delà de toute logique, de...

It’s like the idea of him is better than the him of him.

I don’t have expensive tastes – just bloody ones.– Vampire Dragul Mangorian

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

Non era stato coraggioso, restando lì fermo a farsi pungere – disse Coraline al gatto. – Non era stato coraggioso perché non aveva avuto paura: quella era l’unica cosa che potesse fare. Ma quando era...

It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us.” Kevin said pointing towards home proving if there was ever any doubt that he had no acting ability at all. (The...

Then I wondered, what if?What if he kissed me? What if he told me I was beautiful? What if he told me he loved me?What would I say in return?

Two must rule together, one for the night and one for the day. this is the way it has always been done.

Three. I had just made my first, second, and third kill. Before I had even obtained my mage’s robes. I bent over and vomited into the grass. There was no pride, no justice, just the...

The prophecy has come true! You put the sea salt in the soup…You are the one!

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a VIP.

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Oh. How very clever.”The comparison had left her both impressed and flattered.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

Minciunile rasar cu usurinta de pe buzele noastre. Sunt desprinse din ganduri, temeri si sentimente, le folosim pentru a ne ascunde si a manipula, in timp ce adevarul ramane nerostit, o umbra care isi schimba...

Why I let you talk me into these things, I’ll never understand. One day you’re going to get me into some serious trouble,” Rowan said, shaking his head.

The UFOs were nothing more than the collective fantasies of a stressed out society… The world into which UFOs had appeared was one of under-the-desk siren drills against nuclear annihilation. Society had made a new...

Fantasy isn’t about escape; it’s a survival mechanism. It’s a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected...

My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.

I know what ails you.

El bien común y el bien particular solo confluyen en muy contadas ocasiones

I deal in lead! Roland called, and Eddie felt goose-bumps pebble his arms.

We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it.

She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a...

Why, Emma Pierce, do you want me to take you to Fantasyland and make all of your dreams come true?” He winked with his good eye. It was painfully adorable.

Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation…just as storytellers have done, all over the world, for many centuries past. One distinct change marks modern...

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself...

You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology.