I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned.

I walked forward simply because there was no going back.

Life is a bowl of cherries just make sure you spit out the pits

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.

If you really think about it, humans must look really strange to animals. We have more than one way of communicating, we’re ashamed of our bodies as to where it’s a law to wear fabrics,...

I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I’ve never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

Careful, mother, or you could end up dangling in another’s webs.

Oh, that’s just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don’t even believe me? I’m basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to...

She stared at the phone, feeling guilty. She finally slid across the overstuffed Pleather couch and away from watching old episodes of The Twilight Zone. She was free tonight, apparently, so she might as well...

I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.

ATTACK THE FRESH MEAT!

The truth is that good fantasies carefully limit the magic that’s possible. In fact, the magic has to be defined, at least in the author’s mind, as a whole new set of natural laws that...

We must love all of creation, not only what is common. A god may have the head of an elephant, after all.

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn’t that bad (I have a strong heart), it’s the sudden stops that are painful....

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of...

So why hadn’t he confronted me? Why hadn’t he torn through my lies and forced me to own up that I’d caught him in a Binding? It wasn’t like he could just brush this off....

It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a...

Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy.

You deserved it.

Dear, ye do have a problem.

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone’s mind.

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know...

I’ve been deflecting Calypso’s blushes all day. I don’t have the energy to deflect yours,” he said through clenched teeth. “So either block or strip.” — The Twelfth House ~ The Elementals Book I

The momentary darkness gave way to scores of small glowing lights. Blaise stepped into a candlelit room filled with people and furniture. ‘Where are we?” he asked Livia. “How can a whole other room be...

It’s funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time....

A lot of people still maintain genre prejudice. I still meet matrons who tell me kindly that their children enjoyed my books but of course they never read them, and people who make sure I...

Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it’s wrong to feel that way about God and I...

Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It’s inside us al, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged....

A un tratto lui ricambiò lo sguardo e la fissò, come se la stesse studiando. Poi, i suoi occhi acquistarono una strana sicurezza. “Sei tu”. E di colpo, tutto cambiò. Fu come se il cuore...

death is predestined for all mortals. Souls live forever, but the body does not. Unless you are immortal, both the soul and body are tied together.”~Taznikos Abyssos

If you go looking for love you won’t find it because love is never lost; only we are lost.

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth — yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes...

Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.