Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story

I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.

Magnus began to be truly alarmed. Will's voice would have shaken, betraying that his cruelty had been part of his playacting, but his son's laugh was that of someone genuinely delighted by the chaos erupting all around him

Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.

They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls someday

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.