Mag thought,
Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.
I must fill myself with sorrow if I am to give you what you want.
He knew he was not a brave man, but he had a great sense of drama. In some circumstances it could seem the same. Forcing
A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.
Words shouldn’t be dirty or cleanBut definitely sweet,On the tongue, in the mind.
The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.
The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.
She’s gone on that long road into adulthood from which none of us returns.
Could it be that humans had an infinite capacity to make themselves at home in the direst of situations? Or did one just adjust expectations downward, so as to be able to get through each day?
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered E...
Why would anyone want to be God? he asked. It's a terrible occupation.
The minute they were in the hall, he whispered to his father, He’s a pig. Not kosher, Papa added, and they both chuckled.
Once upon a time, Gemma began, the older two girls whispering the opening with her, which is all times and no times but not the very best of times,there was a castle. And in it lived a king who wanted...
It is winter now,and the roses are blooming again,their petals bright against the snow.My father died last April;my sisters no longer write,except at the turning of the year,content with their fine ho...
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds t...
Even her powders and face paint couldn't disguise the age lines and gripe lines that ran as deep as the railway tracks some said were bound to cross our mountain any day so.
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence...
WHEN I’M GOOD, I’M VERY GOOD. BUT WHEN I’M BAD, I’M BETTER.—Mae West in I’m No Angel
A mist still lay all about the walls and floors, hovering like a last breath on the lips of all the sleepers. As he walked through the castle, he marveled at how many lay asleep: the good people, the...