When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet stockings; I was by and large a grubby child, with a blissful disregard for...

Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be...

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.

The Dome.” Perfectly round, this room is one continuous curved wall of books. A copper dome sits on top with four stained glass windows fitted tight to allow for natural light to stream in. The...

I’d die of a broken heart before breaking yours.

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in...

In time, all will be well – for all of us.””You sound as if you truly believe that it will.””Why shouldn’t I? For Arman has given us the end of the story, has he not?...

I’ve done this sort of thing before. Not prophecies so much, but you’d be surprised how many people want to realign their ancestral lines to seem nobler, or rewrite their family history to remove more...

So I’m not allowed to take responsibility for the whole world, but you are, huh?Kees felt the corners of his mouth twitch and his heart squeeze and then melt. …I am bigger, he growled.And she...

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I’m afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.

Azerowut, I must tend to an urgently urgent business and a business that is urgent most urgently. Watch over my tent with extreme care and care that is caring in the extreme, and do not,...

El sol y la luna atestiguan, distantes, el comienzo de muchos finales.

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

Their characteristics are well-known. They’re beautiful — when they’re not astoundingly ugly. They’re both goddesses for men to worship, and demons for them to flee. They adore children, sometimes to the point of unhealthy obsession....

Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.

I’m sorry ma’am, you appear to be suffering from a mild case of Pretty Pretty Princess syndrome. Have you ingested any magical woodland faeries recently?

Oh yes. You’ve done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.””Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?””Poor grammar skills.

Drawing up her spear, Ellemist lunged towards the mighty leviathan.

Imagination shrinks from the consequences.

Don’t pinch that guy’s ass. He’s a leprechaun.

it was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne’s thread to guide us out of the labyrinth … Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

If you’re a ghost,” he said, “we mean you no disrespect. And if you’re not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh

The only magic that’s left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You’re not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking...

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

All of sudden I cared what someone thought of me. Because we are friends. And making you miserable and angry makes me miserable and angry. I don’t want to be the person to make you...

Michael: “Thing is, I’d like to go out with you. What are you doing on Saturday?”Siobhan: “Committing suicide.”Michael: “Alright then, what are you doing on Friday?”(from Stormling, 2014)

I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,My darkness is composed of him.

I can’t be yours forever, Mab,” I told her, the words flying into my mouth as if by magic. “I already belong to someone else. I belong to Alice!

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

Wie ein Werwolf, bloß als Stier? Ein Wer-Stier?

Si umettò le labbra improvisamente emozionata. Poteva essere suo per sempre. Poteva davvero vivere il suo sentimento per lui. Era solo lei che lo impediva. L’unico ostacolo al loro amore era lei. E quella visione...

She had begun to bake to have her eyes looking at a bowl, a flour bin, an oven, a fire, a face, anything but water. Her hands shaped loaves like scallop shells, like moon shells,...

Yes, indeed. San Francisco was the perfect place for a walker between worlds like Jamie Hastings to grow up in. Her soul had chosen wisely before coming in, born to a visionary mother like Amanda,...

My Ona Elena once told me something important,” Adam said, hesitant now that the force of Levec’s anger had deserted him. “Happiness is like a seed.” Before Levec could speak, Adam lifted a hand. “She...

Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.

I always wanted a sister who could beat me up.

Because that means you’re thinking, and a thinking woman is usually something to fear.

Silence is one of many forms of prayer.

This is sooo cool. I love this place. This looks way better than a day spotting weird people at Walmart.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud’s terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things....

Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining...

There are no mistakes in life” he answered. “Just lessons. Make sure you learn from this one.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.