#fantasy

"There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed."

"i'm your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, it's my duty to obey."

"Never ask a question if you don’t know the answer.— Rhett"

"It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive."

"I feel ill,"[Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die."

"The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try"

"He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face."

"There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I've seen them in commercials,"Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. "You put food in them.""Ziploc bags?"she asked in a cautious voice.He pointed at her. "Yes. I want one."

"I think the best time to stare off into space is when you’re going 65 on a motorcycle, provided you’re wearing your astronaut’s helmet."

"Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle."

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

"Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free."

"I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q."

"I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us."

"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more."She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists."

"In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be."

"Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend."

"Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!"

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."

"This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism."