Ya Fiction Quotes

Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.

Freydolf worried that the stone might have been [stolen], but he finally found it safe and sound in one of the many drawers that were better for losing things than organizing them.

Big changes could come quickly, and he wondered what else might happen to his heart while he wasn't paying attention.

Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.

Whatever you do, don’t make it worse by trying to come up with some flimsy excuse for why you were in the ventilation shaft, Lina told herself.

Normally, she would never wish a head injury on anyone, but it might make her days in Archival Studies a bit easier.

Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.

How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn’t occasionally say yes?

Mistasinon stood as the music of life flowed around him, the instrument of his agency muted.

This is what a castle sounded like when it died, and he knew he would never forget it.

Time is indifferent of the events and triumphs and tragedies of mankind, and really even, for the most part, of its own inexorable passage.

Death drives desire.

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?

Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom

You know those vampire myths? Bollocks to them.

…dancing in the carnage and the flames.

Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom.

You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf.

So an inerrant archer who's inaccurate." Hastra to Athson, from The Bow of Destiny

History judged causes' greatness proportionally by how many individuals, themselves powerless to affect any outcomes of consequence, suffered and died in their service.

There is no reticence nor any limit to a 'Majique.' Only the unwillingness of the mind to open itself to the limitless power of possibilities that exist within the unbelievable.

Space: the gaping hole between land and other land.

Hindsight isn’t a super power.

Approach everything with a careful tongue. - Elder God from The Thousand Years War

Hastra, you think you see, but you don't see this. You never have." Corgren, from The Bow of Destiny

The Light shines brightest, when the world is at its darkest.

Justice lay on the edge o his blessed sword, but revenge - sweet as candy - filled his senses." The Bow of Destiny

Names are for those who do not know themselves." Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny

You haven't lived life to the fullest until you've found something worth dying for

You'll never be as OK with the thought of dying as you are in the moments when you know that you are truly living

The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss

It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero

They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man, ' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we?

There were problems with having a reputation like his. Folks either wanted your hide or wanted you to save theirs. There was never any happy, indifferent middle ground.

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

It seemed everything would be alright after all.

You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

Where have they gone?" "Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

Necessity is the mother of invention, which probably explains why invention’s father left home on the pretext of buying a newspaper and hasn’t been heard of since.

Greatness, Master, is generally only considered enough if you are the greatest.

Do only the greatest good, for the greatest number of people. They will do the rest.

Something stirred within him that was new, dangerous. The question of whether that was wise. ‘Sure.

I stare at the long, almost elegant thinness of the wrist bone jutting out from a heap of flesh and cloth. All that separates us, that poor woman and me, is an accident of birth.

What's a Laster? A dead man.

It was too lonely to be heaven, and there wouldn't be stars in hell.

Don't make rash decisions while the world is dark. Wait for the light to make all things clear.

She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur

If you truly love someone, you will cherish what they despise most about themselves" - Fernando Conclaves