Mer—mermaids. There are fish with women’s bodies or—women with fish bodies sitting upon the rocks. I—I never knew…

Hammer”, I finished lamely, as he waited patiently for my thoughts to find their voice, “we have got to find better words for the things we have in our hearts.””Words seem to be weak things,”...

Lilith came to Longinus in the night, as she often did, and the darkness of the cave was filled with the lustful sounds of their passionate couplings. Afterwards, as he lay back with his eyes...

I don’t believe in virgin sacrifice. It encourages promiscuity at an early age

Think back to the oldest era your mind can fathom, back beyond everything we can remember, when gods were still men who had not yet lived the deeds that would deify them.

A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.” – Durzo Blint

Tell me you won’t go, tell me you’ll stay forever, tell me you love me.

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

What kind of hellish punishment does Lev have planned if he needs the females’ crazy magic moon water? Nothing Talon has ever heard of but the gryphon is a recluse and stories about him keep...

Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still.

Real vampires don’t get pain, we give it.” Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large

I’m trying to go viral, but so far I’m just a sniffle

To live would be an awfully big adventure.

We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do not find Drakes’ path, or even an additional, we should come back straight...

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in...

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, sandy hole with nothing in...

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

Money Chiefs, loud and long notes are not songs. Silent snow wets Earth, seeds grow, flowers’ honey purses seek neither wealth nor power, and the forest’s quiet wisdom needs no wind to blow.

Tant que mes jambes me permettent de fuir, tant que mes bras me permettent de combattre, tant que l’expérience que j’ai du monde me permet de savoir ce que je peux craindre ou désirer, nulle...

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd.

If you keep pretending you’re in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you’re in.

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it’s all the same genre.

Mostra che le loro parole possono ferirti, e non sarai più libero dalla derisione. Se proprio vogliono darti un nome, accettalo, fallo tuo, in modo che poi non possano mai più usarlo per farti del...

He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.

It was the ideal place where people call ‘home.

I was going to paddle barefoot upstream in Yorkshire, I’d wait until at least May before I tried it. But you go ahead, love. You’re clearly a Spartan lass.

‘Now that your speech impediment has been rectified, perhaps you might say something. It would be best if it were humorous. I enjoy a good jest.’ ‘You are dreadfully rude,’ I said to him. He...

a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

Goodbye Curly. I’ll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.

Good, if you were not part Lycanthrope that blow would have killed you. Now, stop fighting your pain and embrace it.

My laboratory,’ I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. ‘Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with ‘mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh’? ”You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?’...

You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons.” – Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon

The Dreaming is always; forever… it’s always happening, and us mob, we’re part of it, all the time, everywhere, and every-when too.

Been lickin’ peanut-butter spoons? Maybe I should call you butterfingers. It has a better ring than Hella Shella. – Tran’Answer my question, Tran. Right now. Or I show you just what these fingers’–I wiggled my...

Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe.

The Rainbow is a promise

And who is your master?”No answer came.Andrew’s insatiable rage rose up and swallowed his grief like a yawning ocean mouth, the darkest depths surging to the surface to form a mighty tidal wave. He closed...

Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza.””Turn your ear to the wind,” she interpreted. “Stand strong.

I mean that we are both in space and inside the tower at the same time.””Why is it so dark here?” Ni asked.”At the beginning, it is always dark.” Simone replied, “Then everything comes into...

Even the best laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality

His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn’t seem at all surprising that he should be able to pull things from his dreams.In that moment, Blue was...

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren’t.

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.

Splendor was the decree of the day.

When she stopped kissing him his hand went to her waist to pull her back. the sun beat down on us. The day quivered. The sky was as deep as the ocean. We breathed underwater.

Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.