It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a...
He was now suddenly hot, as hot as if he’d been in a kitchen baking cinnamon rolls in August. I already knew vampires could sweat, under certain conditions, like being chained to a wall of a house wit...
He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.
He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole i...
Don't let the title mislead you, Arlbeth told her. The king is simply the visible one. I'm so visible, in fact, that most of the important work has to be done by other people.Nonsense, said Tor.Arlbet...
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good...
And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?
When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control from their first 'Once upon a time'. I'm not one of t...
There were some things that took life and broke it, not merely into meaninglessness, but with active malice flung the pieces farther, into hell.
Sungold blew impatiently and began to dig a hole with one foot. She booted his elbow with her toe and he stopped, but after a moment he lowered his head and blew again, harder, and she could feel him...
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it made the hair on the back of your neck stir when you heard it. 'But vegetable...
Reread your favorite novel, the one you only let yourself read any more when you’re sick in bed.
In fact, she would have added the rider that she wasn't sure it could be done at all, getting to know someone at any succession of such parties, however prolonged.
I don't remember this earlier,' said Tuck.'No?' said Robin in a neutral voice, and Tuck was too busy to pursue it, but merely bound it up and told him it was time for him, too, to try to sleep. Robin...
I didn’t want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.
Beauty: You called me beautiful last night.Beast: You do not believe me then?Beauty: Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise.Beast: You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear the...
At first Lissar merely ran away; away from the yellow city, away from the prince whom she loved with both halves of her broken heart.
And none at all has ridden at the king's side since Aerinha, goddess of honor and flame, first taught men to forge their blades. You'd think Aerinha would have had better sense.
One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fa...
Yes. Isn’t it … silly … how … upsetting … just thinking can be? It’s not silly at all. The insides of our own minds are the scariest things there are.