That’ll teach me to start off a conversation with a demand,” I grumbled.

My thoughts of you are a rainbow in splashing ocean waves…appearing…disappearing in sacred depths of skies the grasps of mine reach to the highest… Will you, ah, long for kissing me tonight? so I could...

I love you all for bearing with me, whether I was asking your opinion on the best sources to base the magic in the book off of, hearing your suggestions on wording, or having an...

‎”Your heart is in your chest. It supplies the blood to your cells. Even if you don’t think about it, your heart is always pumping. The heart is the most important organ in the body....

She must die.

Shut up,” Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. “I don’t think you’re stupid.” He closed his eyes “I think you’re the smartest person...

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the...

I can be a woman on a mission. But I’ll choose what mission that is. And that my friend is where youll see the results.

No sooner had the thought occurred to him than he found himself staring down the barrel of a single-shot caplock pistol, and halted in his tracks. It was not a particularly accurate weapon if he...

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feelThe wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince and a soldier.

As long as he is around, I don’t fit into your life.” – Nathan

Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment – she always did.

So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?

When they see beyond the sky,When they know beyond the mind,When they hear the song of the Burning Light;Take these Gifts of My Outstretched Hand,Weave them together.I shall come.

You have to believe in magic to see it.

I wouldn’t peer too far. Even the clearest window can cast back your own reflection.

Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows in what state the world is left. Should what thy sister reports prove true, much hath...

Those suffering from terminal falsehood seek out each other, like a drunk seeks out a wall so that he doesn’t fall down.

Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up...

The ability to “fantasize” is the ability to survive. It’s wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it…. The so-called realists are trying to drive us...

We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns and tails of what has never been and never will be. This gives...

There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I’ve seen them in commercials,” Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. “You put food in them.””Ziploc bags?” she asked in...

Not many years before the Happening, one of your country’s largest religious bodies officially declared that their book was holier than their God, thus simultaneously and corporately breaking several commandments of their own religion, particularly...

Regweld is really a fine wizard,” he continued, patting the shoulder again. “And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!

There was balance, harsh and violent like the noxious air in a swamp. But balance, nonetheless. Then somewhere in the fickle mists of creation came humanity, clawing and afraid, grasping and ambitious. Enveloped in a...

The flames of their passion illuminated the dimly lit room, filling it with a blazing fire which was either brilliantly beautiful or dangerously violent.

I like fantasy. I’ve always been the kind of kid who likes to dream about other things I could be and exotic situations I could be in.

I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent to teach or judge your subject. Readers and students who do...

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

Who would you be but who you are?

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country – a very different world – and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it...

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years...

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

Oh-ho, so you are a witch. More like a witchling, as you’re too small to be a full witch.” (Emmerich)

Those intricate curves and patterns your people create are beyond human eyes and hands to make. Perhaps we wished to avoid a poor imitation that would only have been an ever-present reminder to us of...

A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given...

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and...

The more imagination the reader has, being an untrained reader, the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that...

Nice shack

I’m trying to find someone who doesn’t want to be found.””That can be as hard as looking for a shadow.

Once bitten twice shy? Sure, but… why not get a bigger dog and bite them back?

She gritted her teeth. The man dances like a clod. I’d rather dance with Mr Jenkins, who can barely move.

We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn’t make sense.

Eternity ended ten years ago.

You do know that I am a Fae, correct?””Well, if the purple blood oozing from your friends there wasn’t a clue, I would say the wings and angry gleam in your eyes tipped the scale.

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay

I’m here by choice, I reminded myself. I’m here because I can’t bear to be not- here anymore. I’m here because I can’t tell right from wrong, light from dark. I’m here because I can’t...

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Darkness will always be…its own master…