fantasy-literature

Evil surrounds everyone, but not everyone is able to confront it.

Elephant wanted no part of Rupert Panther. Rather, he wanted Rupert Panther to have no part of him, which was a realistic concern because Rupert was looking at Elephant like a gambler coming off a marathon poker game in Las Vegas looks at the all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet, like he has something to settle with a tall stack of pancakes, and he's all business and all fork.

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.

Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days.

Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

I was pregnable once,_ Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn__ roll properly, couldn__ hop properly, couldn__ romp or flop properly. There were the cravings for roasted cabbage__he loathed cabbage, with its leaves and growing in rows. And labor! Merill passed out during childbirth. She__ endured burns, lacerations, rips, serrated teeth, nails, hooks and a trove of unmentionable harm-inflictors. Labor trounced them all and wriggled gleefully in the spray of blood and gore. __eing pregnable is no good. No good at all. Like growing a bitter melon in your belly.