The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, "Gleep!" The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human,...

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...

Regin the Radiant and Emmaline Troy: 'Alrighty then, have it your way - you're on your own... Now, if you come across a leech, no offense, remember your training.' 'None taken. And would that be the...

And is it all about the pay?" / "Hence the term mercenary." He chuckled her under the chin. "Try to keep up, halfling."

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...

"Igor?" said Moist. "You have an Igor?" "Oh, yes," said Hubert. "That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr. Lipspick....

We initially sought our homeland, but this is not the place. My people once lived here, that's true, but the darkness that seeped into Mithral Hall has ended my claim to it. I have no desire to return...

I stole your seed, the succubus said to his mind, and he could not deny it. They had done it to him several times in the years of his torment, had taken his seed and spawned alu-demons, Wulfgar's...

"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...

His summons was answered quickly this time. Yet it was not Gavin who emerged, shimmering, from the night air. Dorian's magic flared, rallying to strike, as the figure took form. As Kaltain Rompier,...

Your fussing nursemaid of a wyvern is fine, by the way. I don't know how you ended up with a sweet thing like that for a mount, but he's content to sprawl in the sun on the foredeck. Can't say it...

But anyone with witch-blood in their veins was worth keeping an eye on. Or Thirteen.

At dinner, she'd seen the expression flash across his face when he caught Aelin and Rowan smiling at each other. All of Arobynn's jabs and stories had failed to find their mark tonight because Aelin...

The queen hadn't even bothered to say good-bye. She'd just dashed for the injured Fae warrior, his name like a prayer on her lips. Rowan.

He forgot Gavriel and Lorcan as he bolted for her—the gold and red and blue flames utterly hers, this heir of fire. Spying him at last, she smiled faintly. A queen's smile.

The Queen of Flame and Shadow, the Heir of Fire, Aelin of the Wildfire, Fireheart ... She burned through each title, even as she became them, became what those foreign ambassadors had hissed when they...

He chuckled. Even as he said my most private thoughts, even as I burned with outrage and shame, I trembled at the grip still on my mind. Rhysand turned to the High Lord. I'm curious: Why did she...

The sight of a tree at night full of glowing Clabbert lifestyles, while decorative, attracted too many Muggles wishing to ask why their neighbours still had their Christmas lights up in June.

A bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans. You want to be careful with those, Ron warned Harry. When they say every flavor, they mean every flavor - you know, you get all the ordinary ones like...

Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of...

O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! - Elves of Rivendell

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.

Do I not say truly, Gandalf,' said Aragorn at last, 'that you could go whithersoever you wished quicker than I? And this I also say: you are our captain and our banner. The Dark Lord has Nine. But we...

I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen...

The idea of fairyland fascinates me because it's one of those things, like mermaids and dragons, that doesn't really exist, but everyone knows about it anyway. Fairyland lies only in the eye of the...

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were...

I can see time, whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.