Two must rule together, one for the night and one for the day. this is the way it has always been done.

Three. I had just made my first, second, and third kill. Before I had even obtained my mage’s robes. I bent over and vomited into the grass. There was no pride, no justice, just the...

The prophecy has come true! You put the sea salt in the soup…You are the one!

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a VIP.

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic...

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it’s beginning to stretch its range as well.

You know the Prince song where the girl’s phone rings but she tells him, “whoever’s calling couldn’t be as cute as you?” I long to live out this moment in real life.

He didn’t say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I’d been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat...

He was a man’s man: an expert on the golf course, a force to be dealt with in business, and a Texan through and through–and proud of it.

Emotions And Feelings In Life Are Like Water In The Ocean Which Will Never Dry

The Devil loved watching children pour down the front steps of the high school like lava from a volcano. Trolling for souls. He posed in one of his favorite guises today, a school bus driver.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Do I make you nervous?” he said teasingly.

Have you seen the careful manner in which deer drink from a lake at sunrise? That is the way she moves. Have you ever heard the sound a shooting star makes as it crosses a...

Career Opportunity.

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

Sometimes the rules don’t work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You?...

You can have a failed quest, but you can’t have an achieved quest and no reward.

Oh dear…then they must already be on the march! We have to hurry and get to the Hamblings…before nightfall!’ – Phillip Celeste from Curse of Ancient Shadows

Power contains secrets…Secrets contain knowledge…Knowledge contains power.

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

I’ll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband,...

“Surely you have considered terrorist activity?”There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough and who is going to quit after this and raise chickens somewhere,...

I handed him a beaker and toyed with the pleats of my skirt. The folds kept rippling against my knees in a distracting way. It was one of Naomi’s additions to my wardrobe. I quickly...

Most people create a destiny of minutiae, of the mundane. They create their own limitations. When the moment comes for them to stretch and leap, they find themselves boxed in, locked down by their own...

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist.

You are always sending us to our deaths. We’re soldiers, it is what we do.

Beauty is harsh.

He’s MINE”, I howled. “Mine! And I’m his! You knew this when you slunk into our bed. I told you at the beginning, and I thought you understood, well, you understand now, don’t you?”He had...

‘Yes. He was happy. He said, on that last visit, that some things were worth the wait. The world changes in unexpected ways, and all we can do is live in it and take joy...

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise....

Hjuki and BilHjuki and Bil chased the moon,With waters from Byrgir’s well,Upon their shoulders they did share,Simul the pole and Saegr.‘Mani,’ they cried and chased the sky,‘From Byrgir whence we came,To water the earth and...

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

Never, Never give up, no matter what is you age, magick always is there. Use it!

Light or Death!

You are my reality, fantasy, daydream, fairytale, music, more than the princess in Cinderella; you are much more than a traditional myth.

Spirits didn’t notice death. By the rule of impermanence, what was meant to break simply broke, and there was only the next breaking and the next.

That we can never know,” answered the wolf angrily. “That’s for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For...

Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don’t assert our truth, it may again be...

Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid.

Oh, what suffering will befall them in her place,” he smiled wickedly. ~Crispin~

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.

You pathetic humans! It escapes me how you endure any trial long enough even to breed, yet here you are. And why do your kind persist at all? Because every now and then—once a century,...

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered, full of darkness and danger they were. Sometimes you didn’t want to know the end, because how could the end be happy....

Heralds don’t sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

Long I have known and feared this day would come. Like the circle of Earth, the circle of life is changing. Here in the north, there are those who can still feel, see, and smell...