The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.
The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before
The Doctor: Sorry, do you have a name?Idris: Seven hundred years and finally he asks. The Doctor: But what do I call you?Idris: I think you call me... Sexy? The Doctor: [embarrassed] Only when we're a...
Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.
Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the light hinders you. In the darkness your senses learn when they should quit – in the embrace of the dark...
On the whole, stories don't write themselves.
No, said the cat. Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.
Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.
I’m not happy about any of this, said Thor. I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relieve the tension. You’ll see.
It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
If Hell is other people... then Purgatory is airports.
I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.
Being a geological formation gives you a lot of time to think. Also, I subscribed to a number of learned journals.
A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.", University of the Ar...
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
You want to know the future, love? Then wait: