a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Have you ever wanted to be somebody else? Today I fantasized about being my own identical monozygotic twin. How cool would that be? I could both be me, and yet be someone completely different.

Funny isn’t it, that such a large percentage of people believe in the possibility of ghosts yet scoff at stories about then; whereas less than a fifth of one percent think there actually may be...

I’d rather die!

There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen.Hitsuzen…A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible.

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been a cat guy. Every night as I go to sleep, I have this particular fantasy I indulge in. Most men dream about naked women, but...

Suit yourself, but don’t pretend you would have done any better. There are only so many options a man has when he’s about to lose everything.

They’ve made her something else now.

Achan gritted his teeth and recalled Sir Eagan’s words. Love was not taking because you wanted, he’d said. Love was sacrifice.

Ready?” Aeron called over.Michael span to see him giving a thumbs up to the booth. His eye was drawn down to the huge war hammer hanging from his other hand.”How about we start with a...

This, since junior school, had been virtually my only experience of women—as fantasy figures. Reading about women in fantasy novels had set me an even more unrealistic point of view. The Lord of the Rings...

it’s not about what to think,it’s about how to think.

The flowers like me back.

You better not be dead. This team is already overflowing with ankle spankers. I was looking forward to having more women around.” Yara’s eyelids fluttered open. She blinked a few times, focused on him, and...

I’m aware of that, and it is not pleasing in camp.

I believe you to be Filidor Vesh,” said the dwarf.”You are entitled to your beliefs, however ill-founded,” Filidor replied. “No doubt you will wish to search further for this Vesh, rather than impose your presence...

Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?

naked fun time,” which was apparently what Joseph called it. There were some things people should never know, and that was one of them.

It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference.

Was it my fault that I got out of hand?–Loki

An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.

Meadow’s Waltz…the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began…

She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of a real heart?

She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure.

Are you entirely sure of that knot?’ asked Morveer. ‘There is no place in the plan for a lengthy drop’.’Twenty-eight strides’, said Friendly.’What?”The drop’.A brief pause, ‘That is not helpful’.

The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.

Man is a fantastic animal; he was born of fantasy, he is the son of “the mad woman of the house.” And universal history is the gigantic and thousand-year effort to go on putting order...

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

She could just kill them. If she did they would be healed again in moments ☥ She’d better let sleeping demons lie. “Enlightenment.” Coming soon

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else’s words and notes.

The room was two-tiered,its marble balconies filled with rams and water nymphs in fancydress; a kaleidoscope of colours swayed in time to the beat ofhypnotic music. A concerto of absent musicians, it played only inher...

People make mistakes all the time –some of us just are in more of a position to leave an impact when we do.

There. We can be friends now.””Someone like you could never be my friend.””Why ever not?””Because I’m a nice person, and you’re a sick, twisted bitch.

Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the plains of the dreamscape.

He couldn’t think of his robbed left eye without hate squirting into his veins from some deep poison gland he hadn’t known he possessed.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended…..and then believe it.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

I have been waiting for your courage to bring you to me, but I have grown tired of our little game.

The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of...

This would be the stuff of songs and paintings and patterns on skin.

The cave exploded with the sound of trumpets.A heavenly choir began to sing.A surge of power ran up the sword into Henry’s hand.A voice thundered through the cavern. “Whosoever Pulleth The Sword From Out The...

Yes, impossible. But do not dread, impossibility is just another measure of difficulty. The skills of dwargens and flillows sometimes match the impossible…” – Dwenzuak the dwargen

I have found the more fantastic the setting, the more truthful the confessions.

With no action to nourish it, your dream becomes a fantasy.

Besides, men aren’t worth your time anyway, Letti. If we women spent as much time on ourselves as we do fretting over men, we’d be invincible! Work on yourself because at the end of the...

If I’d learned anything, it was that the gods never had good news – especially when it was delivered by the resurrected corpse of your worst enemy.