A man could only spend so much of his time ignoring the present before the present made him a thing of the past.

Let’s just say that once the party was over, the Tribe had the decency to put most of the things back into place with the possible, and otherwise notable, exception of the platypus and a...

The best I can say, it’s like this. A man’s in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell … It’s hard and strong, that shell, and it’s all full of him. Full of...

People should decide on the books’ meanings for themselves. They’ll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.

If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it?

We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when...

Man leave the past in the past. That’s where it belongs. The trouble with addicts is that they carry bad memories around with them – like old luggage. And in that luggage that’s where they...

The evolution of mind requires a diet of knowledge.

It should be particularly stressed that the fantastic makes no sense in an out-and-out strange world. To imagine the fantastic in it is even impossible. In a world full of marvels the extraordinary loses its...

Dovie’andi se tovya sagain!

Too much alleged ‘fantasy’ is just empty sugar, life with the crusts cut off.

One year later the society claimed victory in another case which again did not fit within the parameters of the syndrome, nor did the court find on the issue. Fiona Reay, a 33 year old...

Because I loved you!” she shouted. “Because I didn’t want to let you go! Because I didn’t want to lose you!” She hadn’t realized she was crying until her voice hitched and she felt the...

Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it.

I attract Dragons, something of a gift.

It’s like Dungeons and Dragons, but real.”Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect. “It’s like what?””It’s a game,” Clary explained. She felt vaguely embarrassed. “People pretend to be...

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword.”She raised an eyebrow.”Sharp as hell,” Lightsong said, “but lacking a point.

You don’t believe in miracles.””Sure I do. I just haven’t seen any lately.

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They’re smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.

Men aren’t an inexhaustible resource, even for a king. Soldiers must have faith that their sacrifices are worthwhile.

Only your soul knows that fear is nothing more than a creation of your fantasy.

Um, I’ll see you tomorrow.” I turned around and left as quickly as I had come in.

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

What is damage but forcing yourself, memories of yourself, onto someone else? Coloring someone else’s body. In reality, it’s sort of romantic. It’s why we love to hurt each other.

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

And she has come to make you free.

Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them.

Garion,’ she said very calmly, ‘the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out of the emptiness. Whole constellations have been waiting for you since the beginning of time.’I didn’t want...

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the “picture” end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is...

We are plain qiuet folk and I have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!(Bilbo Beutlin in: The Hobbit)

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

He was dirty, his hair unkempt, his clothes stained with blood. Heroes in stories somehow managed to rescue maidens while looking like court dandies. Next time he went adventuring he’d remember to bring a comb.

I didn’t want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn’t want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and...

You mean run away? Wolves don’t run from a fight.” Rebecca Winters in Lone Wolf Rising

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters...

And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the effect that Fred and George and Lee had tremendous potential if they could just learn to...

Up and down,” Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, “then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran.””Yesterday you said you loved them.””Oh, I do....

To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it into the vast external cosmos, and away from all that introversion and introspection,...

Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!

He dismounted and lifted his arms to Shae. Light as she was, he had to step backward when she leaned into him. He steadied them both, and then turned to instruct the groom. When Kai...

From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As...

I consider fantasy the heir of mythology, addressing a real human need to seek out answers to life’s many mysteries. It is a genre that can tell an entertaining and enthralling story on the surface,...

Hector wished suddenly that leaving the circus was as easy as joining. He didn’t fancy the ghost of Harvey Burfoot hunting him down and passing judgement on him. Troupe mythology varied on the details –...

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.

Inside the flower, within the very structure of its petals, my soul is an element of nature, at one with the blooming Meadow Pinx in the fields on the coast of Marnan.