Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a small gang of specialists is required to remove and inter the body in such a way...

Shawn slowly climbed the old wooden stairs, listening to the low creak that sounded from his footsteps. He hoped the wood wouldn’t collapse beneath him. But the stairs held strong and a moment later he...

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

The queerness doesn’t matter so long as they’re friends.

When he wasn’t busy chasing unseen mice around the academy, Ion spent hours in the Borean Study, searching through dusty books for anything that had to do with the banshee or the Shroud. But finding...

There are people who can never go to Fantastica,” said Mr. Coreander, “and others who can, but who stay there forever. And there are just a few who fo to fantastica and come back. Like...

She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.

Aelin is alive.

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

You are so… 11:59

Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave a world with both.

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up...

The ability to “fantasize” is the ability to survive. It’s wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it…. The so-called realists are trying to drive us...

We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives...

There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I’ve seen them in commercials,” Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. “You put food in them.””Ziploc bags?” she asked in...

Not many years before the Happening, one of your country’s largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly...

Regweld is really a fine wizard,” he continued, patting the shoulder again. “And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!

There was balance, harsh and violent like the noxious air in a swamp. But balance, nonetheless. Then somewhere in the fickle mists of creation came humanity, clawing and afraid, grasping and ambitious. Enveloped in a...

The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.

I like fantasy. I’ve always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent to teach or judge your subject. Readers and students who do...

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

Who would you be but who you are?

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country – a very different world – and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it...

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

Oh-ho, so you are a witch. More like a witchling, as you’re too small to be a full witch.” (Emmerich)

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of...

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given...

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and...

The more imagination the reader has, being an untrained reader, the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that...

Nice shack

I’m trying to find someone who doesn’t want to be found.””That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but… why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I’d rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move.

We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn’t make sense.

Eternity ended ten years ago.

You do know that I am a Fae, correct?””Well, if the purple blood oozing from your friends there wasn’t a clue, I would say the wings and angry gleam in your eyes tipped the scale.

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay

I’m here by choice, I reminded myself. I’m here because I can’t bear to be not- here anymore. I’m here because I can’t tell right from wrong, light from dark. I’m here because I can’t...

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Darkness will always be…its own master…

The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

That’s half of your trouble,” muttered the crocodile. “You believe everything’s true.””That’s because everything is,” replied Mr. Bacchus.

If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President” “Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager

I want a love as deep as the sea, A love that will forever carry me, Away….Where I can go far away from this land…to forget about the love I lost in the sand.

I never tell anybody exactly how clever I am. They would be too scared…

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning ’causeOur art’s official and only partially artificialAnd our heart’s in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere’s not where it settlesBecause it’s...

Nothing. I’m just punchy from all the driving.

I will carry you kicking and screaming like a child then spank you. We can do this my way or yours.