This isn’t about what is, said Mr. Nancy. It’s about what people think is. It’s all imaginary anyway. That’s why it’s important. People only fight over imaginary things.
There are many for whom the lure of gold outweighs the beauty of a rainbow.
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by ma...
She wondered whether cats could all talk where she came from and just chose not to, or whether they could only walk when they were here - wherever here was.
She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds...
P'raps it will be like that and p'raps it won't. And p'raps if it is, it would have been like that anyway. I don't care. I'm still going to wait here for Lettie Hempstock, and she's going to come back...
Oh, monsters are scared, said Lettie. That’s why they’re monsters. And as for grown-ups . . . She stopped talking, rubbed her freckled nose with a finger. Then, I’m going to tell you something importa...
Nenhum homem, afirmou Donne, , mas estava errado. Se não fôssemos ilhas, perder-nos-íamos, afogados nas tragédias uns dos outros.
My hands shook, but the milk did not touch the milk, and the Universe did not end.
Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.
It's like you said the other day, said Adam. You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really...
It's just that I get distracted, and I get Lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days........When, you know, I just want to Hide or Scream or Bleed or something, and.....All that...
It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work...
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it we...
Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million thin...
If literature is the world, then fantasy and horror are twin cities, divided by a river of black water. The Horror place is a rather more dangerous place, or it should be: you can walk around Fantasy...
I'm a has-been. Who the fuck cares about me?Shadows said softly, You're a god.Wednesday looked at him sharply. [...] So?It's a good thing to be a god, said ShadowIs it?
I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could...
I would have given my life for you, she whispered, sadly.Live, said the monk.You shall be revenged, said the fox. The onmyoji who did this to you will learn what it means to take something from a fox.
I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?