He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as...

You know that's why mermaids swim around topless all the time, right? It's because their boobs are too big and all bras are C shells.

I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment? I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. I sentence you to a...

Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll... I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you, she improvised. And that I got mugged, she added for good measure. Cries of Mon Dieu! and That's not...

Why the hell didn't faerie food come with a warning written in bold letters: MADE IN LA LA LAND. EATING WILL OPEN YOU UP TO FAERIE ATTACKS.

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

How do you express a skinny blonde werewolf and a former toad in a cake?

He hadn't been able to help himself, couldn't have stopped himself from kissing her even if he'd tried. Fighting with her was a million times better than dreaming, and the fight had conjured his soul...

C, it was like my breath was stolen. My heart seemed to merge with yours. When you came into my life, all I wanted was you. All I thought about was you. Your smile, your laugh, your lips, and your...

Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.

Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

I'm scared that you'll make me love you…and then you'll leave me.

"How about this then." Chase shifted on the bed. Even without looking, Connie knew he was leaning over earnestly, his brilliant, lying black eyes full of sincerity. "I've missed you desperately. I'm...

I have no way to describe this, and I am positive that this is all just a horrible dream I have yet to wake up from. The vice principle is insane. My own uncle is insane. Those stupid kids are insane....

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

"Of course they were eaten," he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. "Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians."

"He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then. I thought the prince of darkness was the devil." ... "Wait," Meena said,...

Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don't Care.

Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a...

I, Anna Maria de Burgh Coppinger Isis solemnly swear on

Thanks for outing me. Anytime, cupcake. Now I'm taking my psychic ass to bed. That door spanked me.

The coat was a remnant from his stint at being people - size. I'd gotten his jacket, Ivy had gotten his silk robe, and we'd thrown out his two dozen toothbrushes.

"A stuffed animal, man!" I roared at him. "Don't mess with a wizard when he's wizarding!"

Built in an elegant fusion of Italianate, French, and early Disney styles, this magnificent estate offers a thousand bathrooms for all of your executive Cinderella needs...

I dipped my head so I could look into his eyes. The monster at my table looked ready to cry. I'd managed to make a teenager depressed. Maybe I could shoot some fish in a barrel for an encore.

The crimson dragon grew day by day and devoured everything it found in its path. Torn bodies rained from the sky and the flames of its breath flowed through the streets like a torrent of blood.

You know how they put the bubbles in this stuff? Vinyáya's mouth twitched with the ghost of a smile. I thought it was naturally carbonated. Yeah, that's what I thought until I got a prison job at the...

Granny disapproved of magic for domestic purposes, but she was annoyed. She also wanted her tea. She threw a couple of logs into the fireplace and glared at them until they burst into flame out of...

"Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk." "Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am stone cold sober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he...