Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are.

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you; choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give...

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception...

Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and...

Sleep now, baby. I’ll be here when you wake.

As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I’ll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?””Yum,” said Mogget.”Yes, sir!” mumbled the telephone operator, his hands shaking as he tried...

Cuando se le agotaba el fuego, ingería de nuevo la lava que había vomitado o devoraba las armas de los enemigos caídos y las fundía en el crisol que tenía por estómago.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.

The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.

know a lot of people who hide out in fantasy because reality is too hard to cope with […] Fantasy isn’t about escape; it’s a survival mechanism. It’s a way to deal with things that...

Sex is still on the table. We just keep the yucky love stuff out of it.”…”Now where is this table you speak of to have sex on? You should take me there. Now.

Tell them I gave my life with pride. Do not punish him if he kills me. Release him back into the wild, and my spirit will ride him into the mist.

Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the...

I’d rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

To let her imagine how great a lover I’d be, I ate soup with chopsticks. She went home with another man, but I’ll bet she fantasized about me.

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Molti tra i vivi meritano la morte. E parecchi che sono morti avrebbero meritato la vita. Sei forse tu in grado di dargliela? E allora non essere troppo generoso nel distribuire la morte nei tuoi...

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

First of all, you’re dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly… yes, I know that rhymed, you really don’t have to tell me.

This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it...

Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild boar could be seen, trotting with steady stride along the edge...

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply...

It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.

People won’t change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain changing brings.

You used to scream so well when you were scared, back when I lived under your bed.

You’re starting to look like you did before, and that’s not good because what you looked like was complete shit, so get up and go to bed so I can stop acting like your mother....

I don’t ever dream about you and meI don’t ever make up stuff about usThat would be considered insanityI don’t ever drive by your houseTo see if you’re inI don’t even have an opinionOn that...

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you’ve set. But if you’re writing about science, you have to first learn what you’re writing about.

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant.

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste,” I said.

Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

It wasn’t that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of...

Humans have reason to hate us dragons. If one dragon turns against humankind, he is a great and terrible foe.

Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two feet!

It looks as though your shop is doing well,” Luka said gazing around, “Could you help me find a gift for a lady friend of mine?”My heart plunged to my grenn satin slippers, and I...

Most high and happy princess, we must tell you a tale of the Man in the Moon, which if it seem ridiculous for the method, or superfluous for the matter, or for the means incredible,...

Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.

It had been the most difficult part of coming to terms with what she was; knowing that she had to give up a potentially blissful and wildly happy relationship with Caleb. But it was her...

It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that,...

Leaves lift trees.

Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another’s marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their stories could be read...

Expand your world. (Stories about wizards and spells) are very frequently about power relationships…

And it’s a shame, really it is, because, according to you, I was the one true friend you had.

You’re so unfair, Michiru…To leave into your own world…Don’t leave me alone…-Haruka Tenoh/Sailor Uranus

Kamu tahu, ketika kamu mengatakan akan menyerah, sesungguhnya hal-hal hebat sedang mulai bekerja

It just doesn’t seem right to spend your entire life drinking, when you could be exploring the world.””Or,” Zhy said as he hefted a mug to his lips, “it doesn’t seem right to be risking...

Have you ever felt as if your dreams were more memorable, more alive, than what you knew to be reality? Have your dreams ever seemed so tangible as to make you question upon waking if...

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can’t possibly act on.