fantasy-fiction

Now of course in hindsight, such a wonderful thing, though never around when you actually need it, I know that I always loved her deeply.

The truth is often of no consequence.

Only what you choose is what makes you.

Courage comes in the form of a girl.

Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what to expect. I would be ready. I would be prepared.

It was the ideal place where people call __ome.

Do not stalk your prey until you are sure it is prey

Here grew willows and alders, their trunks twisted like giants_ sinews. Around them bark lichen bloomed blue-white in the darkness. It felt like a good place, where there was old magic.

It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it with brutal frankness, there never was a cockier boy.

You are a curse in my life!

A weapon needs a wielder; it should not be permitted to start its own fights.""You are not my wielder; you are naught, a forgotten ghost, not even a memory.""Maybe, but you are still a weapon.

It had become their creation, and they all would know it.

No._ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. __his is just the beginning, you__l see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.

Kammy could see the palace built into the cliff face. It was a majestic construction. Its white walls stretched up into a cluster of turrets and towers. Its façade was broken by gigantic windows that reflected a rainbow of colours. The palace was flanked by two waterfalls that filled the chasm running far below them; a chasm that was bridged by a staircase of monstrous size. But Kammy hardly noticed how far she would fall should her grip fail. The giant structure that speared out of the palace and up into the sky commanded all of her attention. It burned her eyes so she could hardly look at it, but at the same time she could not look away. It looked like a white diamond. Each of its countless edges sent off shards of brilliant light. It dwarfed anything that Kammy had ever known and she had never felt as alive as she did in that moment.

We fight the same and we love the same. Just because we are different does not mean that we aren__ equal.

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

There are demons within. And they're the deadliest kind.

Now I realize what I've known all along, that this ability, or this gift, rather, comes at a cost. It always has.