Finishing my thoughts aloud meant saying how my dad had passed, and I had failed. How I had smoked joints and lay in bed enabling my hopelessness. I’d been the ugly in my world.

…to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what’s made up is as important as what’s real.

…it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass...

Only the foolish, blinded by language’s conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it’s melancholy rim, green in it’s envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it’s greatest...

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Dr. Jules Hilbert: Hell Harold, you could just eat nothing but pancakes if you wanted.Harold Crick: What is wrong with you? Hey, I don’t want to eat nothing but pancakes, I want to live! I...

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to...

As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic...

for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

Get lost in a story, in a dream fantasy…

I like to discover something new each day, to interpret the world in a way others might not, like a child might approach new experiences.

Books are an extension of our imagination

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.

Diable!” They were hurling these words at Moreau like stones.

Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way —...

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn’t.

Oh, what suffering will befall them in her place,” he smiled wickedly. ~Crispin~

In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man…..poetry and fiction are based upon woman’s love, and the movements of history...

It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in...

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it’s during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

All it takes, is one leap of faith.

Soon I find myself squatting on the floor. I am still striking my face; not with my fists this time, but with wide-open hands. I am slapping myself. The sounds I make when my palms...

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

And once you’ve been to this Center, this Truth, you’ll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

So Mary gasped in disbelief as she heard the squeaking noise again, and the grandmother’s rocking chair was not moving at all. Then the grandmother opened her eyes and looked directly at her, holding her...

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

I want to keep you, till the end of days.

It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.

I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.

Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction.”{Guy Gavriel Kay}

I would like [my readers] to better understand human beings and human life as a result of having read [my] stories. I’d like them to feel that this was an experience that made things better...

I was murdered. Even though my heart continued to beat, I was very much deceased. All faded to black

When you least expect it, you run in to an old friend from school, or the neighbour’s cat, not Mary the Virgin Mother of God.

If you have no idea what I’m about to do, just watch and wait..then you’ll see time spin to a stop right before your eyes..and you’ll forget that world you once knew

The rain is a screen that changes the colour of the sky, causing a sepia filter to fall over the city. It is as if the city has gone back in time, to the age...

Kill them. Kill them all. Remind the world what it means to be Arya. Remind the world what it is to walk with the gods. – Syoddhan Kauravya

Living in that castle was like being condemned to Hell before I’d even had the opportunity to sin.

Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.

Just a flesh wound.

No me queda más que un día de vida, después de haber escatimado quince millares a la muerte, sólo me resta uno más. Dos, a lo sumo

Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their father, Martin?

Why is everything always my decision?” I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else.”Oh, I remembered now. “Great”, I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I’m touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.

God wanted him to go to Him with his deepest needs, to stop looking elsewhere, so that he could be made whole again.

The Butcher of Babylon featured in over 500 porn films between 1974 and 1982, and was best known for his motto: Come for the butcher, stay for the meat.