“As he hurtled through the air Simon saw the boiling emerald fire hit his protective spell and explode into sickly green sparks, inches from where Falamir was still crouched, oblivious to the chaos ...”

“A flicker of someone elses memory came to Simon and he picked up Excalibur from where he had dropped it. Carefully, he laid Excalibur on Arthurs chest. A smile crossed the kings pasty face as he cl...”

“Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.”

“Everything changed for Simon Falke the first time he fell through the fire.”

“A flicker of someone else’s memory came to Simon and he picked up Excalibur from where he had dropped it. Carefully, he laid Excalibur on Arthur’s chest. A smile crossed the king’s pasty face as he...”

“Now tell me what youre afraid of.Uncle Nathan is right about this tree. Its got some kind of spirit in it. And it doesnt want me to leave. I saw my dad smile and shake his head. Im serious, Dad. Yo...”

“Arvandus!" I tried again to reach him. "You can come back now. I'm alone and would love to argue with you again.”

“He pushed his way between them with his burly frame and forced her to stand in the cold with him. He flipped the long, silver dagger so its worn handle faced her. "Take your claw, pup," he growled....”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?”

“He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left Los Angeles International at 10:10 A.M. Los Angeles time. Who says time-re...”

“You're from the future, Mr Netherton?""Not exactly," he said. "I'm in the future that would result from my not being here. But since I am, it isn't your future. Here.”