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.

Humans need fantasy to be human.

On my seventh birthday, my father swore, for the first of many times, that I would die facedown in a cesspool. On that same occasion, my mother, with all the accompanying mystery and elevated language...

We fight monsters and unholy creatures for a living here. Grotesque, evil, violent, dangerous; they’re certainly all these things. And yet, we somehow manage to go to sleep each night and wake up each morning....

Mean people are meaningless.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

The only way to get the ending you want is to write your own story.

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine’s daughter, to be the catalist of it all.

Hammer does not think he will make it through this next winter. His breath comes short in his chest, and it takes much effort for him to get up and dressed. My body is still...

It’s funny how those we care about can create the same reaction that we get when we are facing down a monster ready to kill us.

Poor Uther. He believed that virtues are handed down through a man’s loins! What nonsense! A child is like a calf; if the thing is born crippled you knock it smartly on the skull and...

Don’t forget – no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

Shut up!” Finn turned, furious. “Look at you both! The only friends I have in this hell and all you can do is fight over me. Do either of you care about me? Not the...

Magie ist das, was wir tief in uns spüren, wenn wir lächeln

Es ist eine Leidenschaft, aus Liebe geboren, von Verzweiflung genährt und durch Trauer besiegelt.

No valía la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me