With a tremendous effort, Areop-Enap opened all its eyes. ” I am sorry to leave you alone and defenseless.”Perenelle sealed the spider Elder into the huge cocoon of web, then turned and strode across the...

It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale – they are well-equipped to deal with these

The humming of Kayn’s blood that coursed through her veins seemed to sing along to the steady, almost tribal, beat of her feet as they pounded rhythmically into the dirt. A veil of earth flowed...

I’m scared, all right?” I said. I could feel my stomach churn as my gaze rested on the wooden trunk.Nathan turned my chin, looking at me with an expression of utter sincerity. “You don’t have...

You don’t remember it. And that automatically means you didn’t do it?

Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as ‘the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, “the wheels of the world”, are...

Reading a fantasy book is a commitment…a commitment to adventure…a commitment to bravery. You make that commitment and you reap the benefits…of epicness.

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else’s fantasy isn’t nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.

I believe there is an explanation for everything – although we shall never know the explanation for everything. Not everything in this world can be understood by us, nor should it be. It is not...

Josephine è uno e molti. È fatta di respiri, ricordi, paure. Sogni, anche. Il suo nome è sconosciuto ai più, ma chi la incontra sa riconoscerla. Ha tanti volti. I suoi occhi ciechi esplorano intensamente...

Das Blau in seinem Blick multiplizierte und intensivierte sich, während er sich weiter zu mir vorlehnte. Irrtum, bemerkte ich: Ich zog ihn näher.

And who is to say the truth can’t be a miracle?

Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things—elves and fairies—and now we don’t. Now we see them, right?

What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true?

Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?

You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette’s...

Christian,” she breathed after her name had remained uncomfortably within his ears for a most distressing period of time.The tears in her eyes had begun to fill quickly and more tears fell as she stared...

One of his followers murmured agreement, but another quietly slipped away. Now there was Norton and four others. Maybe that wasn’t so bad. Christ Himself could only find twelve.

She released her weapon with one hand, twisted around, and kissed him. It was the deepest she had ever kissed him. Blood filled his face, and he went limp at the touch of her lips....

Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, “the love of nature” seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has...

Yeah, well … you know how we hobbits like to eat.

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it’s because these...

Exotic dancers, your instant key to a blissful vacation of the moment.

She fantasized sometimes too about killing him a little: a little poison in his pudding, a little flick-flick-flick with a fillet knife at his throat.

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings’ making, and I had come out stronger.

Anche se le fiamme dipingevano sul corpo di Kirien una miriade di sfumature diverse, la sua natura non era fatta per le mezze misure. Lui era come il deserto: crudele e inclemente. Arido, ma allo...

You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy,” said Vikus.”Oh, I see,” said Gregor. “So, when’s he coming?”Vikus fixed his eyes...

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it’s already written.

Boss, she’s a _Dragon_. They don’t _believe_ in assassination. They consider it a _crime_. If you go up to her and–“”Kragar,” I interrupted, “I never said that I was going to go up to her...

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~”Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

We’re free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you’re running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn’t your horse any longer. One might just as well...

Wenn du in’s Fettnäpfchen getreten bist und jemand dir freundlicherweise die Hand hinstreckt, um dich da rauszuholen, dann solltest du die Hilfe vielleicht annehmen, anstatt dich auch noch darin zu wälzen.

When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my...

Well there’s no way to know for sure unless we take a short trip down a black hole.”Coming soon–Vengeance’s Fire

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

Ce este, de fapt, normal pentru mine? Ce poate fi normal într-o lume în care nimic nu e ceea ce pare? Doar moartea mai pare să fie un lucru adevărat, pentru că viața s-a transformat...

The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who’ll see it on the screen. It’s like the people who read Anna Karenina,...

And the One will win the Armor of the Easter Dawn and defeat the enemy with audacity and wisdom. The body of the One is strong and ready to lead. Lammasu will pounce

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no...

tip of my hat” to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

If there’s one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it’s that nothing was impossible.

I promised her that I would never kiss and tell, but I have to tell someone about my dreams and fairytales. So I’m telling you that I kissed her.

Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity.

reading is awsome

Shining with craving, his emerald gaze penetrated her soul. “I desire you so much”. His whisper melted her heart. His soft touch set her ablaze.

By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river’s edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the King of Ilek-Vad comes from his far realm on the twilight...

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.