In one form or another, it was one of the first implements created by ancient people to give voice to the mysteries that words cannot encompass, but that they had a need to express. Only the drum was...
I don't know, Kerry said. It doesn't feel like any medicine I ever took before. She raised a hand to her forehead. It really does feel like a light, shining inside me. How did you put it there? Maida...
But this was what happened when you mined the past. You gave up control of the present.
Stone walls confine a tinker cold iron binds a witch but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
The lies in fiction are such an effective way to tell emotional truths.
[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.
We have not inherited the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children.
There's stories and then there's stories. The ones with any worth change your life forever, perhaps only in a small way, but once you've heard them, they are forever a part of you. You nurture them an...
There's no such thing as fiction, Annie told him once. If you can imagine something, then it's happened.
The moon likes secrets, Meran said. And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.
I knew it wasn't simply escape that lay on the far side of the borders of fairyland. Instinctively I knew crossing over would mean more than fleeing the constant terror and shame that was mine at that...
Telling me how the saguaro hold the spirits of the Kikimi who have lived a good life. He waited expectantly until I asked the question he was waiting for: What happens to those who live a bad life? Th...
When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold...
There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.
The family we choose for ourselves is more important than the one we were born into; that people have to earn our respect and trust, not have it handed to them simply because of genetics.
Nothing strikes me as truly weird, Jilly told him. There’s only stuff I haven’t figured out yet.
Myslela jsem si, že se to stává, když je člověk starý.Denzil se zakuckal. A ty jsi poměrně stará, myslím. Sedmnáct, není-liž pravda?Osmnáct. A cítím se jako stařena.
I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories...
I figure all oracular devices are just a way for us to focus on what we already know, but can’t quite grab onto. It works the same as a ritual does in a church: You get enough people focused on someth...
Faerie music is the wind, he says, and their movement is the play of shadow cast by moonlight, or starlight, or no light at all. Faerie lives like a ghost beside us, but only the city remembers. But t...