After that, a strange thing happened: Amy couldn’t stop her expectations from rising. She imagined herself transformed and beautiful, like Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, with her homemade dress and mysterious lace boots. She...

Everything changes, and there’s no denying that. But change isn’t always bad, as long as you hold onto who you truly are, and hold onto each other.

Oh, and one thing. Please, please don’t depend on me too much. I mean that. I’m not going to be of much help. If your plots come to a head—if things go wrong at the...

By the time I realized I even had a heart at all, it already belonged to you.

The thing to remember when you’re writing is, it’s not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It’s whether it wakes a truth in your reader.

Get lost in a story, in a dream fantasy…

Firnis lächelte gütig. “Bücher sind lebendige Wesen”, sagte er, “und wenn man ganz in sie eintaucht, dann erwachen sie zum Leben. Und wie die Gedanken, so bekommen auch die Buchstaben Flügel verliehen. Sie lösen sich...

Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on, and I must learn to live with myself…

Rabbrividì di nuovo. Ormai era lucida e poteva ricollegare i brandelli in una sequenza dal senso compiuto. Era davvero quella, la verità? Il mostro non aveva commesso la strage, ma la strage aveva creato il...

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego...

Into the sky to win or die.

Books pull you to other worlds … let them, and enjoy the adventure.

…Opal is dead, and I don’t see how a healer can change that! It’s not something to joke about.”Joke?” Then Owen hit his forehead and cried, “That’s right, you haven’t heard!”Heard what?” asked Adrien, who...

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up...

I refuse to live in a constant fighting match, Landon. It will not do!’ ‘And I’ve tried living without you, and it just won’t do!

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Aquella arruga reflejaba dos características de su naturaleza: su mal carácter y su perenne perplejidad ante cualquier operación mental más compleja que sumar dos y dos con los dedos.

Not long ago-incredible though it may seem-I heard a clerk of Oxford declare that he ‘welcomed’ the proximity of mass-production robot factories, and the roar of self-obstructive traffic, because it brought his university into ‘contact...

On ne peut la voir, on ne peut la sentir,On ne peut l’entendre, on ne peut la respirer.Elle s’étend derrière les étoiles et sous les collines.Elle remplit les trous vides.Elle vient d’abord et suit après.Elle...

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.