"Every life, Transtromer writes, 'has a sister ship,' one that follows 'quite another route' than the one we ended up taking. We want it to be otherwise, but it cannot be: the people we might have been live in a different, phantom life than the people we are. ... I'll never know and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know ( Read more... )

"Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, life and death alike follow in its wake."
-Jacqueline Carey; Kushiel's Chosen
When I was little, and Mother was still alive, my favorite story was a family myth about Ril'lah, the god of war. There are ( Read more... )

"Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean that they don't love you the best way they know how." -Unknown
The words you spoke were strangled with emotion, twisting and writhing in and out of the white spaces, tying the words together with choking deftness. The emotions swirled in the air between us, solid and ( Read more... )

"Does it need a purpose? [...] Maybe it's just enough to know that there's something marvelous still in the world, that all the mystery hasn't been drained out of it by those who like to take a thing apart to understand it, then stand back all surprised because it doesn't work anymore." -Charles de Lint; The Little Country
He stood in the corner ( Read more... )

"Those were vile people in [Sodom and Gomorrah], as is well known ( Read more... )

"Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight."
-The Hush Sound; Wine Red
The fruit was juicier than you can imagine, the taste exquisite. Juice flooded my mouth, dripped down my chin, splashed onto my bare breasts. But it was not the taste of the juices, but rather what came with it ( Read more... )

(listed in alphabetical order)

• And My Heart Flew From Its Cage
  
• And, Of Course, the Fairies
  
• Another Dream, Another Hope
  
• Choosing Swords Over Glass Slippers (Working Title)
  
• Condemned
  
• Drown
  
• The Hand You Would Not Take
  
• The Heart of the Mystery
  
• Last Act of Love
  
• Not be Contained
  
• Of Course I Ate the Fruit
  
• Once
  
• Pillar of Salt
  
• The Secret was Accustomed

"Books may well be the only true magic." -Alice Hoffman
The minute she entered, her soul quivered. Then it stilled, in an echo of the more human emotion of surprise, and then it leapt joyfully past her skin, stretching out its tendrils in all directions, trailing along the multitude of floor to ceiling shelves that were lined with books. She ( Read more... )

"Between the tides and double tides, she'd always stop to dream.
For sometimes, it's the quiet ones who grow up to scream."
-Beth Woodson
“The stars are amazing.”

We see all the things you don’t.
          The multitude of things you take for granted.
               We count them for you.
(Someone has to keep track)
( Read the rest... )

The secret was accustomed to being placed somewhere clever. Her name was Victoria ( Read more... )