Vivian Vande Velde
Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.Collection: Writing
Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They don't do it just once.Collection: Morning
She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered to put on a presentable shirt or fix her hair because she's only running into the grocery store to get a quart of milk for her grandmother, and who does she see tending the 7-ITEMS-OR-LESS cash register but the guy of her dreams, except she can't even say hi—much less try to develop a meaningful relationship—since she looks like the poster child for the terminally geeky.Collection: Girl
People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.Collection: Country
If you don't like vampire games, don't playCollection: Games
if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.Collection: Saint
Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.Collection: Brother
Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.Collection: Mother
The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs, except in bacon form. The wolf thought bacon form was a very sensible way for pigs to behave.Collection: Pigs
They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.Collection: Fun
Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?Collection: Smack
There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon.Collection: Dragons
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.Collection: Evil