In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped-up harmine, junk reduced to pure habit offering precarious vegetable serenity,...

Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.

The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder.

Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry into a volcano is the possibility that evil can be defused by talking. The fantasy of justice...

The cry that ‘fantasy is escapist’ compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are ‘escapist’ compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer:...

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken

When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don’t scratch it!

People with imagination

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now there is struggle. Dim memories of life before the traumatic separation of birth may be the source of...

Mitsuko told me that you make your jewellery yourself. You’re very talented, they’re really lovely pieces, but I wouldn’t want to take them away from you. It’s you that makes these jewels really beautiful!

We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the...

So why isn’t the world overrun with evil spirits?”Moira stared at her, a half-smile on her face. “Who says it isn’t?

Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You’re my ideal reader, friend, partner. I’m your fan.

I felt that I was breaking him apart as much as I was breaking myself apart. I imagined that pain in his mercury eyes and the silent tears whispered their way down my cheeks. Silent...

Those secrets residing in their hearts and minds held magnificent Energy. Humans were too inept to see it as anything but evil.

Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he’d shown me the latch behind the dressing-room door mirror. But while the warrior I loved had been offering me an...

The unnamed man’s nose flared in insult as he thought to himself while the pig named Corbin prattled on. He disgusts me with his gluttonous sweat and fearful stink. He is like a swine, plumped...

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger...

It’s people’s worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it’s a job and it’s not real.

Santa was dead, to begin with. There was no doubt whatsoever about that. The after-action report was signed by the field commander, the director of operations, the secretary of the Office of Sidhe Affairs, and...

But are they heroes or mere dreamers?

Funny. You like it when I scream? Yet you cover my mouth!” I laughed then winced.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Illusions may flatter us, confuse us, or betray us, Drakkonwehr. Or they may be images we cling to when the truth is too difficult to face.

Ms. Wrack’s mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and sang. But sailors had never been lured to their doom by her, partly...

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

Hope was never meant to beA future shared alone,As life cannot be won or lostIt was never ours to own.

Like I’ve told you before, Beverly, I don’t care where we live as long as we’re together.” Vance… “The Elder Effect

Faccio volentieri delle promesse, specialmente quelle che non posso mantenere.

You’ll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

Where the king goes, the realm follows-Catlyn Stark-

I’m a hobbit!

What he’d find there, of course, was up to Pete. But he was sure there were magicians in Tampico and leopard-skins and golden thrones in Juba. Dragons and pirates and white temples where magic dwelt....

Tangled onto the shuttle, we were being woven back and forth to create the same tapestry of despair and heartbreak and loss. It was so muchbigger than I could see before, and all I had...

The age of lost innocence varies for each person. Some lose it when they learn that their childhood fantasies are merely myth, while others lose theirs due to trauma. As adults, we often look down...

Give me a literary love that doesn’t need words, that flows like silent water and speaks to the bone. There I lose myself in the fantasy.

Jacob wrote that the true poet ‘is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. The...

Change the world so that nothing else is changed.

We can’t breathe batteryacid, can we?

Hypothetically speaking let’s say you were dreaming, what would happen next?

It is you I foreknew and have predestined for such a time as this. Just as My heart has so eagerly chosen you, William Ore, you must also choose me.

Sometimes it takes a little madness to fulfill great things.

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.

It is a fool of a shepherd who culls his dogs.

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.

Are you having a seizure or something?” she jested, displaying a rare vein of humor.Egnatious sent her a queasy glare.