He closed his eyes for a moment and pulled at the fragments of the elements to light the torches hanging at the pillars on either side of him. The fire did little to warm the...

I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.

A wounded animal yet bears teeth

Romance her, enhance her, desire her, put her first.

Love?’ Echo was right. All destruction started from love, didn’t it?

Il canto dei morti è il pianto dei vivi.

Sobre a nudez forte da verdade — o manto diáfono da fantasia.

He’s doing you know what!

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it’s a written piece and nowThe symphony’s soundingShouting out to these feet...

How can so many (white, male) writers narratively justify restricting the agency of their female characters on the grounds of sexism = authenticity while simultaneously writing male characters with conveniently modern values?The habit of authors...

Me han dicho —a modo de crítica— que vivo en la luna. Les he dicho —a modo de crítica— que viven en la Tierra.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Front grace in the shadows

We can’t change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

We all go through our entire lives not knowing. Wondering. Trying.Untile we sleep.

No doubt you’ve experienced something similar in books, movies, novels–whatever you use as an excuse to get away, to suspend reality. Literary characters, like these projections, draw you in and cultivate feelings of friendship on...

I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I’d never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest...

Ma un rivolo, di Sogurdr discende le gote cupo come sangue rappreso, nel ricordo di chi un tempo con lui condivise il fato, di chi, una notte, spartì con lui l’amore, in un letto di...

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts; but it is true, no matter how wildly fantastic some of the stories...

One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.

«Così tutta la mia vita, e quella di coloro nelle cui vene scorrerà il mio sangue, verrà consacrata alla scoperta e alla vigilanza del Potere naturale di cui il mondo è colmo. Non ci sarà...

Our pendants glowed in unison and I understood that they represented us – Siren and human intertwined for eternity.

But this was fancy; she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn’t done before.

Listen, this rampage sounds like it’s going to make a real mess out of the city. I just got my studio rebuilt from the last fire, and I’m fairly certain my insurance doesn’t cover ‘acts...

One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another’s bones in one’s vexation.

i’m your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it’s my duty to obey.

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....