Now, there is a tendency at a point like this to look over one’s shoulder at the cover artist and start going on at length about leather, tightboots and naked blades.Words like ‘full’, ‘round’ and...

Are you the same woman I brought here, Sasha? You’re like a kid at Christmastime.”–Monroe”You would be, too, if someone fulfilled your most secret fantasies.”–Sasha

Il Diavolo raggiunse l’infinito. Lo chiamava così, perché lo associava alla spinta creatrice primordiale, cui assistette quando il suo giovane cuore aveva ancora la massa del sole, e quel cuore pulsava ogni due secondi emettendo...

The sad thing about miracles is that they’re unique. They can’t be explained, or shared, or duplicated. And they absolutely cannot be captured and made to perform on demand. If that day ever came, our...

When words come out of your mouth, do your ears just block all incoming sound waves?

Por cada bisturí que nace, hay un cuerpo que reclama el sabor de su filo

Pam. Listen.”The phone is pressed to my ear. Speak.”Appius Livius Ocella just dropped in.”Fuck a zombie!’- Sookie & Pam, Dead in the Family, Charlaine Harris

When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.

Battle was a masculine art. A woman wanting to come to the battlefield was like… well, like a man wanting to read. Unnatural.

I’ve always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends…well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the lens through which I make sense of the world. Plus, it’s a lot...

Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Briggs), anecdotal collections and historical investigations...

First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.

Die Welt ist gierig, und manchmal umschließen Nebel unsere Herzen, bis wir uns nicht einmal mehr daran erinnern können, wann unsere Träume zu sterben begannen.

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way which thou camest. ‘Destroyer’ thou hast embraced, and Abaddon shalt thou be....

While I have the floor, here’s a question that’s been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic or epic fantasy ever deal with the fundamental quandary of their novels ....

I fantasize about making reality better.

A story just isn’t a story without a dragon.

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true;...

Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered...

Lead’s erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they’re drinking and it’s cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it’s her fantasy

There is no limit as to what we can learn. Through study, we can learn from the past. Experience can empower us to handle the present. For those who desire to learn of the future,...

Los humanos juraban cumplir su palabra poniendo por testigos a los dioses, pero ,ante quién podrían jurar los propios inmortales?

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

Trente chevaux sur une colline rouge; D’abord ils m chonnent,Puis ils frappent leur marque,Ensuite ils restent immobiles.(Les dents)

He is a free man, not because is in a poition of political power and influence that you will never be able to achieve, and not because he has more character and heart in his...

Know yourself, not a face, in love, a deeper grace.

our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree.

You’ll be civilized or we’ll leave your arse here.” Johan… “Vital Perception

Are you off to the iceberg today?” Sophie retorted.

His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone. In our youth, he’d been a strict master lording over my lessons while...

If any man tries to stop us, cut him down.

Vacation, I go there in my mind. Especially when I’m at work, getting paid for it.

I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human race. We tend to dismiss it as ‘fairy tales,’ when it isn’t. Fairy...

My love, a person is better judged by how they treat their inferiors than their betters. That is the true measure of a man, or a woman. Think you that you are so far above...

The cover of a book is akin to the door of a home; if it is welcoming and enticing, it beckons you and your visit will be all the more pleasurable and desirable.

Corvid looked up at her. “Oh, hello Doris.””Gertie, dear,” she said. “They call me Gertie.””You used to be Doris,” Corvid said as a matter of fact.”Who?” She seemed unsure of what she was being told.”Doris,...

Come in, Martise.” Silhara’s voice was almost sibilant in the darkness as he tagged on her hand. “There are no soul eaters here.” No, she thought. Only heart thieves.

The Question is actually the answer

Use Jesus Motor Fuel—Put a savior in your tank!

What is it, you ask?” Kali said, trying to cover her surprise with nonchalant words. “I haven’t thought of a name yet. Got any ideas?””Shit,” the pirate said, said of. The gag made elocution difficult.”That...

I had said that Le Guin’s worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced....

Gerry reached up to smooth a bit of that snowy mane. The strands slipped through his fingers like silk to reveal a witch’s mark, a spiral of olive-green stones that seemed to be a part...

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill,...

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.

Underwater, bubbles erupted before my eyes as a swift hand snatched my arm and pulled me to the surface. I gasped for air, coughing and gagging at the amount of water I sucked into my...

A wise man once said that any human being is capable of infinite achievement, so long as it’s not the work they’re supposed to be doing.

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question.

I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.

Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly.