It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.
If you can fake sincerity, you’ve got it made.
If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.
I'll swap you my dad, I said.Oh-oh, said my little sister.
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and...
I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.
I my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I my hurt, and even it, a little, for now I could write a death, a loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, a...
How do I know you'll keep your word? asked Coraline.I swear it, said the other mother. I swear it on my own mother's grave.Does she have a grave? asked Coraline.Oh yes, said the other mother. I put he...
How are your dear mother and father? asked Miss Spink.Missing, said Coraline. I haven't seen either of them since yesterday. I'm on my own. I think I've probably become a single child family.
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.
DEATH: Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear.MORPHEUS: And I am far more terrible than you, sister.
Cease your weeping! he said. It is I, Loki, here to rescue you!Idunn glared at him with red-rimmed eyes. It is you who are the source of my troubles. she said.Well, perhaps. But that was so long ago....
Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.
But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.
But that's how it goes; you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you.
And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in...
1. Write.2. Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.3. Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.4. Put it aside. Read it pretending you've never...
Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba
Today, fantasy is, for better or for worse, just another genre, a place in a bookshop to find books that, too often, remind one of far too many other books; it is an irony, and not entirely a pleasant...
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be like...