It was Kizzy's first kiss and maybe it was her last and it was delicious.

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.

How rough your hands still are.”Embarrassed, she made to pull them away, but he held them fast. “Yet never have I longed to kiss any woman’s hands as I long to kiss these.

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

I attempt from love's sickness to fly.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

As long as I can walk and talk, I'll try almost anything. I say "almost" because the high wire is definitely out.

What is Truth? Truth is the attribute of when the human heart marries the love of God, and the result is passion for your spiritual path.

It's so crazy with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I feel so lucky when that happens.

There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!