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.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife…. I guess I am a fantasy.

I don’t want’a die… I have other plans!” -Fraggle Rock

Sleeping AtlantisSilent cool watersdancing upon her skin ~silent cool waterushering dreams within…

Fire. I see it everywhere.

Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real.

It was as if he had two faces, one of utmost calm, one of furious action; and he wore both with ease. He was like the animal whose face he wore, able to sit in...

No, I do not believe in fate, that some spirits of the heavens weave the laws of the world to make it so. That is dogma for the foolish, for the universe is quite able...

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

I turned away from him, the hot blood still coursing through my veins. I gripped the door handle, and it molded like dough into the form of my hand. Not even caring, I wrenched the...

How dare the embodiment of her worst nightmare come packaged as her hottest fantasy?

The cyclone had set the house down gently, very gently – for a cyclone—in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty. There were lovely patches of green sward all about, with stately trees bearing...

Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies

The human world is full of weak-minded people, who think they’re as clever as can be and are convinced that it’s terribly important to persuade even the children that Fanstastica doesn’t exist.

He kissed her, and the magic that had been building up steadily around them exploded, raining down in arcs of silver fire that made her half-remember a prophecy from her dreams.One by one, they all...

Chaol,” he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian’s eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. “Treat her well.

Jacob glanced across at the woman. ‘She’d have you for breakfast, mate.”Yeah,’ Luca countered, ‘maybe I want to be had for breakfast.

Denna is a wild thing,” I explained. “Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don’t say the storm was mean. It was cruel....

The future will never bend to the fleeting hopes of the man.”From “Lucifer’s Ladder: God of the Fallen, Book One

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you’re wearing?

Beware the autumn people

There wasn’t a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, “May your day be full of angry dragons” or, “May every dragon you meet today be pissed off.” But, there should have been.

Who needs to be a Phoenix for rebirth? One simply requires themselves and an instrument to clean the slate and start over, perhaps create their own world where everything is better..

I feel how little it concerns me, everything that’s called “the world,” and how grand and exciting what I privately call the world is to me.

Careful not to blur the lines between what belongs to characters, and what does not belong to you. Even ‘reality tv’ is scripted. Don’t get it twisted. ~T.F. Hodge

Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign...

You can never trust a Vampire, child.

In the fantasy, sci-fi world, the fans are so discerning and they’re so tough and they’re so intelligent, and they’re so critical.

Oh, Hank,” Susan whispered, “their wings are furry.””Oh, James,” Harriet whispered, “their hands are kind.

When she set Shane’s glass of Coke down in front of him, she did it with probably a little too much emphasis; he glanced up at her with a question-mark expression.[…] ‘‘What?’’ Shane asked her,...

Eppure, si nascondeva nella sua mente confusa la convinzione di poter superare tutti quegli ostacoli apparentemente insormontabili.

Forever…” The last syllable stretches, just like my grandfather’s dying breath.And the beady, black orbs are no longer eyes but deep, obsidian pits…

Effie Seabright, we’ve been fated to meet you for a long time.

Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It ‘s what makes us think twice.

Emmerich’s heart in his throat, he could only stare down at Monica, who looked up at him with glassy eyes as she shivered with pain and choked on blood.

The way back will come but once. Be steadfast.

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the...

I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a...

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.

Emma, I will love you with every breath in my body and beyond my own death. I swear to be your shield, your protector, your worshipper. There is nothing I will deny you. I am...

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

I didn’t wait for Luck. I raced after it with a truck.

Trust no one,” said Sullivan, “especially Teachers.

Don’t be a fool for the Devil, darling.

I think given the choice between loving Mare – betrayal included – and never knowing her, I’d chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

Why aren’t you afraid of me?”Coy looks at me, baffled. “Why would I be afraid of you?”I shrug, not getting a chance to answer before he continues.”Until the day you start chomping on my throat...

Everybody must have a fantasy.

Yes, I do.