But it wasn’t till he’d been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for his vacation. He was sitting in a café, out on the...

Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

It all goes back and back,” Tyrion thought, “to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own...

The Dream Box wasn’t a place, but it was a destination. It wasn’t life, but it was a way of life. Reese wasn’t awake in the Meat Space the way he was in Cyber, where...

He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening...

Wow! It’s like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. “It’s God’s love. That’s stronger than any magic.” – The Demon Trapper’s Daughter

This is not my bedroom!

my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.” There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they...

It was a Saturday, soft and silent, when the Wind spoke for the first time.

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself.It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded,...

Chosen

I don’t have to stand and walk, I only have to open my eyes.

He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive.

I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. – Tran

If I could have looked into the future to see what I would have become, I wouldn’t have become the person I was always meant to be. ~ lw

I guess, my advice would be the following: stay calm and do not let the panic seize you.

The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright spotlight. She flies into the sky, leaving the crowd staring in astonishment. Angels fly away in...

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.

Unicorns and rainbows exist because we want them to.

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies … Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it.

Unbeknownst to most of its dormant and otherwise distracted inhabitants, one beautiful tiny blue sphere, spinning through the dark cloak of galactic space, was clearly under siege.

Sometimes the righteous path doesn’t take you where you need to go!

Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb

As the last dish of confections was removed a weird pageant swept across the further end of the banqueting-room: Oberon and Titania with Robin Goodfellow and the rest, attired in silks and satins gorgeous of...

Damsels were women unable to do anything more complicated than get themselves captured by overgrown lizards with virgin fetishes.

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.

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...