fantasy

Hope was never meant to beA future shared alone,As life cannot be won or lostIt was never ours to own.

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done._ He winked at Butler.__re you sure you__e at the library? I thought I heard water.__rtemis smiled, enjoying the exchange. __ater? Surely not. The only thing flowing here is information.___re you grinning, Artemis? For some reason I get the feeling that you__e wearing that smug smile of yours.

I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.

Is it not enough to shine,To know that friends are true?That love is born of friendship,And who you are is you?

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really remarkable the number of things Chrestomanci seemed not to know. He had heard of Hitler, though he asked Brian to refresh his memory about him, but he had only the haziest notion about Gandhi or Einstein, and he had never heard of Walt Disney or reggae.

He was talking. I tried not to think of how he looked and instead of what he was telling me. Once I accomplished that, my brain couldn__ get past the __unning_ part. __ don__ run._ I walked the mile run at school. True story. I abhorred any kind of physical exercise. I wasn__ good at it. I was skinny, but I was soft; had absolutely no muscle mass at all. That__ the way I liked it. Who was he to try to change that, change me? I wouldn__ let him. No way, no how. One half of his mouth lifted. He seemed to be enjoying this a little too much. __ou do now. You have to be fit, you have to be strong, Taryn, if you__e to stand any chance of surviving this. Come on, we__l start with stretching._ He forced me to twist my body into unimaginable positions. I even had to touch my toes. The agony. Luke took pleasure from my pain; even laughing as I moaned and groaned through it all. Then, the worst came about. He. Made. Me. Run.

A spell perhaps?_ The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.

Leo,_ Jason said, __ou__e weird.___eah, you tell me that a lot._ Leo grinned. __ut if you don__ remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!

The Lord of Rags and Tatters.

It wasn't premeditated. It was what needed to be done. So I did it.

His eyes were closing again, all of their own accord, so that he lay in red, pain-filled darkness. It occured to him that he was dying and he didn__ care. __e__ alive!_ Blue said again __e__ breathing!_ __ can__ see him breathing.

I wish for all who look for Gold,Shall find one letter less,A world where trying always wins,And leaves the loser blessed.

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

...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I don__ think your geese care much for your betrothed and I hope they hadn__ any plans on sharing our bed.

Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear,Black souls repent as hell draws near," - Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.

A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a __ip of my hat_ to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

I__l leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it__ time?_ __ got it,_ one of the girls said. Nyssa, Leo remembered. She wore camo pants, a tank top that showed off her buff arms, and a red bandanna over her mop of dark hair. Except for the smiley-face Band-Aid on her chin, she looked like one of those female action heroes, like any second she was going to grab a machine gun and start mowing down evil aliens. __ool,_ Leo said. __ always wanted a sister who could beat me up.

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms behind him and his ankles together. Arthur looked up and saw the fizzing sparkling crown coming down. I__ Arthur Penhaligon, he thought desperately... The crown was wedged tightly upon his head- and Arthur fell silently screaming into darkness.