The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing.

suspension of disbelief” and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

We cannot know the future. All we can do is face it bravely. We should take heed of those we love and respect. But in the end, we make every decision alone.

It is our time, our task and our destiny – from “Opoponax Dreams

Right,’ Thomas said. ‘Where are we headed?”To where they treat me like royalty,’ I said.’We’re going to Burger King?’I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter,...

I already did you.”It was going to be a long drive.

I know California isn’t a real destination. You can’t get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves...

So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire’s coffin? – Shella

The king is dead. Long live the queen.

His gaze ran over her body again, resting on the deepest of the fracture lines in her shields. ‘Come here.’Purple feathers fanned around Riana’s sides. Sudden tears moistened her eyes at the unexpectedness of what...

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? … What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around...

An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.

Good fantasy fiction: … explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters’ individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.

Grabbing someone’s ass doesn’t count as capturing them!

Armour… is part of a state of mind… in which you admit the possibility… of being hit.

I can’t imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A...

You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

I’ve always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

And you will spend the rest of your life wondering if I have disciples to avenge me. Hire your tasters, Burbesh. Until the Master of the Sleeps comes for you, you’ll never know a taste...

Haven’t you figured it out yet? I’m the wolf, Ryiah. I guess what I really should have told you was to never trust a prince, but that’s not quite as memorable.

In the privacy of my dreams, I’m a warrior.

Bring death to those of Evenfall.

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you.

A picture of the world, nothing more than a casting stone set in the heavens, intruded on Errol’s dismay. World without end. Was Illustra, their entire world, nothing more than a lot for the ultimate...

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.

I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then — dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways...

I know what it’s like to be invisible to other people.

Dreams are pathways for the heart. – Reminim the gnome

He may be stronger, but I’m not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That’s why he’s here. He wants me for what I can do after all.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

You think your children are better than mine? Ha! When yours were out playing with gold, mine were out fighting for survival. You taught your children to roll in money when I taught mine what...

Non avevano imparato nulla dai loro errori, se non a portare la crudeltà a un nuovo livello di brutale raffinatezza.

Forcefully,” he winked.

The second wolf dove straight into the free platter. Fibres of flesh ripped apart with the same terrible tearing sound of sacking stretched and broken. Red sprayed. Limbs flailed. The bloody gurgle of a scream...

That definitely wouldn’t help your getting over me.

A Tangle of Green Men”]

Even now I ask myself, what would have happened if I had gone to the cove with Tansy that Thursday afternoon, instead of going to the beach? If I had stayed away from the boat...

You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist–that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.

and their days make no story for they were good and joyful and without event

Cabeza de Vaca had wrapped her in his arms and in his language, whispering about a life she did not understand although understanding seemed to form just beyond the sea and sand, waiting there for...

What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell, purgatory, and faeryland for their expression, no less than this dilapidated...

Are you compensating for something, Monroe?” –Bastian