“The shiny black nose of a fox appears through her door before the rest of it steps tentatively across the wooden floor to where shes cooking. A pile of childrens clothes lie discarded in a corner o...”

“You dont let many people behind that wall of yours do you? No I dont because basically people are shit. They have let me down over and over so now I choose them very carefully.You have let Yvan in,...”

“The trail through the pines and beech trees was bright red. He was surprised the other human couldnt see it. She was walking slowly, not far from him. He could smell the moisture on her hot skin. S...”

“He felt the magic pouring through his body. The tattoo twitched and with a shout of pain Vasilli could not hold in, the creature pulled itself from his body. It flopped, bloody as a newborn onto th...”

“Squinting in the darkness Anya could just make out a strange curving symbol scratched into the bark. Baba Zosia scored a line through it, disfiguring the symbol. Anya felt something in the air chan...”

“Can I have a final request in case I dont make it?Anything. I havent been kissed in five years, kiss me Trajan, she whispered. I am so afraid. Trajan slowly pushed his glasses onto the top of his h...”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”

“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give ...”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“By embracing your subconscious, you gain a different way of seeing and experiencingan expanded perception that opens a doorway, not only to lucid dreams, but also to the mythic dimension. As in lu...”

“If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.”

“It may be laid down as a general rule that if a man begins to sing, no one will take any notice of his song except his fellow human beings. This is true even if his song is surpassingly beautiful. ...”

“Magic or nature, they were much the same thing to Magnus.”