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.

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

Have I ever told you how glad I am we’re not enemies? Eragon asked.No, but it’s very sweet of you.

I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.

… three minutes.

As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when the sources provided by folklore could safely be used as literary...

I love you, Jocelyn, and nothing, not even death, will ever keep me away from you.

Time often sheds light on curious circumstances.Something we thought was a crazy miscalculation may, in fact, turn out to be the key component to the winning play.

Por encima de todo, había aprendido la lección que su soberbio hijo jamás entendería. Que el verdadero poder, si quiere perdurar, debe ser anónimo, permanecer oculto y manejar los hilos desde las sombras. Pues si...

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the...

Vivant sans souffle,Froid comme la mort,Jamais assoiffé, toujours buvant,En cotte de mailles, jamais cliquetant.(Le poisson)

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

Spread your wings. Fly as far to know who you are.

Thank-you, son,’ said his father. ‘I want you to know we’re bothproud of you. Take care, and keep in touch if you can.’‘Or even better, visit!’ said his mother, ‘our home isn’t completewithout you!

Look, I went to a lot of trouble to come here and try to help you. I’m in more trouble than I can guess, but if you don’t want my help… maybe I should have...

Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without a rest. Sometimes they do not require food or water. They never cast shoes, go lame or put...

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary.

I like remembering her as she was—a fantasy of the future.

You wouldn’t believe how boring of a job it is, tasting food to make sure it isn’t poisoned.

If you put your heart, mind and soul into it, there’s nothing you can’t do!

If, Your Highness, is a word that will steal your soul. Do not waste your thoughts on ifs. What is done is done. Look to the future.

Curious about these new entities, the elementals asked why the gods were in the shape they were.”We are bipedal,” Erebus said. “We wish to be distinguished from the animals.””What are animals?” an elemental asked.”We’re not...

Take courage. You do not yet see your own abilities because you have never been tested. You have never demonstrated to yourself or anyone all that you can do. Put your fears aside and trust...

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.