urban-fantasy

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
732a0dd	You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.	young-adult necromancer urban-fantasy	Kelley Armstrong
5f3f4b7	"I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short."	magic shifter urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
708d31b	"He was trying to tell me something." Derek snorted. "Aren't they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook--if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement." --	young-adult necromancer derek ghosts supernatural urban-fantasy	Kelley Armstrong
c950d5d	I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.	fiction vampire supernatural urban-fantasy	Laurell K. Hamilton
35c1d01	Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.	fiction hunter vampire supernatural urban-fantasy	Laurell K. Hamilton
95152b8	"Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen."	urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
76f35f3	" ." And now, you are forever mine."	magic urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
2e9902a	It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen	urban-fantasy	Kim Harrison
61fd03e	This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.	revenge humor letter sookie-stackhouse faery paranormal urban-fantasy	Charlaine Harris
921a11d	A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn't have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn't have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.	sookie-stackhouse werewolf vampire urban-fantasy	Charlaine Harris
4b0e630	Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her.	romance into-the-woods trent-kalamack jenks rachel-morgan paranormal urban-fantasy	Kim Harrison
e6093b3	"You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them." I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me."	romance paranormal-romance urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
d2c9deb	In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.	fiction vampire supernatural urban-fantasy	Laurell K. Hamilton
89e6722	"Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous job for a grown woman like me. He wasn't trying to be contentious, but he himself was a probation officer, working with troubled kids from the Indian reservation where he'd been raised. Day in, day out, he dealt in a concrete way with very concrete problems, well aware that his words and deeds could change young lives for good or ill. I argued that certain stories are also capable of changing lives, addressing some of the same problems and issues he confronted in his daily work: problems of poverty, violence, and alienation, issues of culture, race, gender, and class... "Stories aren't real," he told me shortly. "They don't feed a kid left home in an empty house. Or keep an abusive relative at bay. Or prevent an unloved child from finding 'family' in the nearest gang." Sometimes they do, I tried to argue. The right stories, read at the right time, can be as important as shelter or food. They can help us to escape calamity, and heal us in its aftermath. He frowned, dismissing this foolishness, but his wife was more conciliatory. "Write down the names of some books," she said. "Maybe we'll read them." I wrote some titles on a scrap of paper, and the top three were by Charles de lint - for these are precisely the kind of tales that Charles tells better than anyone. The vital, necessary stories. The ones that can change and heal young lives. Stories that use the power of myth to speak truth to the human heart. creates a magical world that's not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the "magic" of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I've long lost count of the number of times I've heard people from say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going. Recently I saw that parole officer again, and I asked after his work. "Gets harder every year," he said. "Or maybe I'm just getting old." He stopped me as I turned to go. "That writer? That Charles de Lint? My wife got me to read them books.... Sometimes I pass them to the kids." "Do they like them?" I asked him curiously. "If I can get them to read, they do. I tell them:	myth fantasy charles-de-lint power-of-stories troubled-backgrounds magical-realism childhood mythic-fiction folklore urban-fantasy	Terri Windling
d450c07	"Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile." Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!"	sexual-innuendos urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
ff5b4af	His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands.	romance quen rachen-morgan the-hollows trent-kalamack jonathan urban-fantasy	Kim Harrison
e20942b	But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.	pam sookie-stackhouse urban-fantasy vampires	Charlaine Harris
83c7ee5	And men my prophet wail deride!	magic prophecy urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
4338ab3	So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?' 'Exactly.' I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork.	kate-daniels werewolf urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
e101a5b	"Dina, I'm bored," Caldenia announced. Too bad. I guaranteed her safety, not entertainment. "What about your game?" Her Grace gave me a shrug. "I've beaten it five times on the Deity setting. I've reduced Paris to ashes because Napoleon annoyed me. I've eradicated Gandhi. I've crushed George Washington. Empress Wu had potential, so I eliminated her before we even cleared Bronze Age. The Egyptians are my pawns. I dominate the planet. Oddly, I find myself mildly fascinated by Genghis Khan. A shrewd and savage warrior, possessing a certain magnetism. I left him with a single city, and I periodically make ridiculous demands that I know he can't meet so I can watch him squirm."	science-fiction urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
1c7957c	The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse [...] stuck in my mind because of the subject's flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your protective circle before you start your workings.	magic urban-fantasy	Ben Aaronovitch
316992f	"Your eyes seem to flash every time you stare at me. You look hungry when you look at me." A slight growl rumbled in his chest. "That's a different kind of hunger, Naomi."	romance rancher werewolves shifters paranormal urban-fantasy	Kait Ballenger
e14934e	Mouse isn't big. He's compactly challenged.	humor urban-fantasy	Jim Butcher
ea0783e	Something round and dirty and white was resting near my foot. It was a skull. I picked it up. 'Is that you, Nicholas?' I asked. 'Put that down, Peter,' said Nightingale. 'You don't know where it's been.	urban-fantasy	Ben Aaronovitch
53ab1ca	"But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious" "Like salt and vinegar potato chips" "Exactly"	mallory merit vampire urban-fantasy	Chloe Neill
0d7be9f	"I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then -- dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways more exciting. The downtown music scene was exploding -- punk and folk music were everywhere -- and it wasn't as expensive to live there then, so a lot of young artists, musicians, writers, etc. etc. were all living and doing crazy things in scruffy neighborhoods like the East Village. I was a Fantasy Editor for a publishing company back then -- but in those days, "fantasy" to most people meant "imaginary world" books, like Tolkien's . A number of the younger writers in the field, however, wanted to create a branch of fantasy that was rooted in contemporary, urban North America, rather than medieval or pastoral Europe. I'd already been working with some of these folks (Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, etc.), who were writing novels that would become the foundations for the current Urban Fantasy field. At the time, these kinds of stories were considered so strange and different, it was actually hard to get them into print. When I was asked by a publishing company to create a shared-world anthology for Young Adult readers, I wanted to create an Urban Fantasy setting that was something like a magical version of New York...but I didn't want it to actually New York. I want it to be any city and every city -- a place that anyone from anywhere could go to or relate to. The idea of placing it on the border of Elfland came from the fact that I'd just re-read a fantasy classic called by the Irish writer . I love stories that take place on the borderlands between two different worlds...and so I borrowed this concept, but adapted it to a modern, punky, urban setting. I drew upon elements of the various cities I knew best -- New York, Boston, London, Dublin, maybe even a little of Mexico City, where I'd been for a little while as a teen -- and scrambled them up and turned them into Bordertown. There actually IS a Mad River in southern Ohio (where I went to college) and I always thought that was a great name, so I imported it to Bordertown. As for the water being red, that came from the river of blood in the Scottish folk ballad which Thomas must cross to get into Elfland. [speaking about	young-adult fantasy bordertown urban-fantasy ya young-adult-urban-fantasy	Terri Windling
62b32bb	"You got the list?" Lewis asked. "What the hell is the deal with the temperature?" "Razel is not allowed to sweat," Maximo answered. "If she does, fanatics will appear from nowhere like mischievous sprites and bottle each drop and then sell it on eBay for millions."	erotic-romance razel-dazzle urban-fairytale urban-fantasy	Elizabeth Morgan
f7dab59	Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover	leather urban-fantasy vampires	Chloe Neill
786eb7e	Once bitten, totally smitten.	romance vampires-romance urban-fantasy ya	Mari Mancusi
74bb295	Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say...	romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
cd6aa74	And then he kisses me. Yes, the beautiful vampire, the dark general, the one who never gets close to anyone, leans in and presses his lips against mine. This kiss is soft. Gentle. Light. Like a butterfly's wing whisking my lips.	vampiric paranormal-romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
206bb93	For the record, I would have made a very lousy romance heroine.	romance urban-fantasy vampires	Mari Mancusi
501aab7	I would have made a very crappy book heroine.	book-store vampire-hero paranormal urban-fantasy vampires	Mari Mancusi
aab45d0	I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.	wolves shifters paranormal urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
10ae4cb	"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey." Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal. Born weak. And easily taken." ... "And that's only a taste, child. When you know what it is to be truly taken later this night, you will understand that your life ended the moment I wanted you."	house-raith lord-raith dresden-files jim-butcher urban-fantasy	Jim Butcher
d24d869	". . . hated each other so much their feud had become legendary. Half the jokes in the galaxy started with "a vampire and an otrokar walk into a bar...."	science-fiction urban-fantasy	Ilona Andrews
b94192a	"It has nothing to do with you--" "It has everything to do with me that you want to get yourself fucking killed." He snarled, the words tight and full of iron. "Losing you is not an option."	romance blood-series psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires	Elizabeth Morgan
54331d7	"I lifted my head, my gaze meeting his. "Wanting something doesn't guarantee you will get it." "A man can still hope." "I've never had much room for hope."	romance blood-series psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires	Elizabeth Morgan
9772a41	I've been as good as dead since the day I was born. I accepted that a very long time ago.	romance blood-series psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires	Elizabeth Morgan
d8fcc83	"You have to stop doing, you know, human stuff," I called. "It is seriously creepy coming from a wolf."	romance cranberry-blood psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires	Elizabeth Morgan
10de173	We'll be all right. Somehow, we will. Trust it is the truth.	romance cranberry-blood psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires	Elizabeth Morgan
3e7be28	Let the past go, Bren, or it will ruin your future.	romance cranberry-blood psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires	Elizabeth Morgan
b09d0a8	My sister, lover of the night, vampire of the Blood Coven, never before seen in anything but the color black, wants to be a pom-pom waving, football field-dancing cheerleader?	shifters urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
3b43a03	Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.	romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
811a508	So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?	romance urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
19bead1	Why be a vampire if you aren't going to take advantage of the basic wardrobe?	wolf-shifters paranormal urban-fantasy ya vampires	Mari Mancusi
5a67878	It's just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?	romance urban-fantasy vampires	Mari Mancusi
d43c643	Have you ever had a moment where you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you were in the right place? That you were on the right journey? Maybe the sense that you'd crossed a boundary, jumped a hurdle, and somehow, after facing some unconquerable mountain, found yourself suddenly on the other side of it? When the night was warm, and the wind was cool, and a song carried through the quiet streets around you. When you felt the entire world around you, and you were part of it - of the hum of it - and everything was good. Contentment, I suppose, is the simple explanation for it. But it seems more than that, thicker than that, some unity of purpose, some sense of being truly, honestly, for that moment, at home. Those moments never seem to last long enough. The song ends, the breeze stills, the worries and fears creep in again and you're left trying to move forward, but glancing back at the mountain behind you, wondering how you managed to cross it, afraid you really didn't - that the bulk and shadow over your shoulder might evaporate and re-form before you, and you'd be faced with the burden of crossing it again.	chloe-neill urban-fantasy	Chloe Neill
122328a	"Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. ... That's why you see those young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back."	humor paranormal-thriller series urban-fantasy	Ben Aaronovitch
cd57455	You were supposed to be a Werewolf, Brendan, so that you would be in her world. To be the strength she needs when she no longer has strength of her own, to show her the reasons to survive and to live.	romance blood-series psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires	Elizabeth Morgan

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.

Kelley Armstrong

5f3f4b7

"I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short."

magic shifter urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

708d31b

"He was trying to tell me something." Derek snorted. "Aren't they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook--if in danger of evaporating, make sure you're in the middle of a dire pronouncement." --

young-adult necromancer derek ghosts supernatural urban-fantasy

Kelley Armstrong

c950d5d

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

fiction vampire supernatural urban-fantasy

Laurell K. Hamilton

35c1d01

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

fiction hunter vampire supernatural urban-fantasy

Laurell K. Hamilton

95152b8

"Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen."

urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

76f35f3

" ." And now, you are forever mine."

magic urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

2e9902a

It is not always what we do, Sa'han, but who we love that makes us who we are. Quen

urban-fantasy

Kim Harrison

61fd03e

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.

revenge humor letter sookie-stackhouse faery paranormal urban-fantasy

Charlaine Harris

921a11d

A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn't have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn't have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

sookie-stackhouse werewolf vampire urban-fantasy

Charlaine Harris

4b0e630

Rachel knew what she was doing. And when she didn't, she could improvise on the fly, coming up with options that left a lot of collateral damage but usually only hurt herself, not the people around her. It was one of the things he would never admit that he admired about her.

romance into-the-woods trent-kalamack jenks rachel-morgan paranormal urban-fantasy

Kim Harrison

e6093b3

"You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them." I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me."

romance paranormal-romance urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

d2c9deb

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

fiction vampire supernatural urban-fantasy

Laurell K. Hamilton

89e6722

"Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous job for a grown woman like me. He wasn't trying to be contentious, but he himself was a probation officer, working with troubled kids from the Indian reservation where he'd been raised. Day in, day out, he dealt in a concrete way with very concrete problems, well aware that his words and deeds could change young lives for good or ill. I argued that certain stories are also capable of changing lives, addressing some of the same problems and issues he confronted in his daily work: problems of poverty, violence, and alienation, issues of culture, race, gender, and class... "Stories aren't real," he told me shortly. "They don't feed a kid left home in an empty house. Or keep an abusive relative at bay. Or prevent an unloved child from finding 'family' in the nearest gang." Sometimes they do, I tried to argue. The right stories, read at the right time, can be as important as shelter or food. They can help us to escape calamity, and heal us in its aftermath. He frowned, dismissing this foolishness, but his wife was more conciliatory. "Write down the names of some books," she said. "Maybe we'll read them." I wrote some titles on a scrap of paper, and the top three were by Charles de lint - for these are precisely the kind of tales that Charles tells better than anyone. The vital, necessary stories. The ones that can change and heal young lives. Stories that use the power of myth to speak truth to the human heart. creates a magical world that's not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the "magic" of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I've long lost count of the number of times I've heard people from say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going. Recently I saw that parole officer again, and I asked after his work. "Gets harder every year," he said. "Or maybe I'm just getting old." He stopped me as I turned to go. "That writer? That Charles de Lint? My wife got me to read them books.... Sometimes I pass them to the kids." "Do they like them?" I asked him curiously. "If I can get them to read, they do. I tell them:

myth fantasy charles-de-lint power-of-stories troubled-backgrounds magical-realism childhood mythic-fiction folklore urban-fantasy

Terri Windling

d450c07

"Mad Rogan: "Resistance is futile." Nevada: "You are not assimilating me!"

sexual-innuendos urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

ff5b4af

His attitude, though always bad, has changed since he helped me prep the Pandora charm for Morgan. He thinks I'm falling for her, as ridiculous as that sounds, and he might be tempted to take matters into his hands.

romance quen rachen-morgan the-hollows trent-kalamack jonathan urban-fantasy

Kim Harrison

e20942b

But I couldn't leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would've felt terrible if I'd asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn't think anything about it. In fact, probably he'd have sent Pam.

pam sookie-stackhouse urban-fantasy vampires

Charlaine Harris

83c7ee5

And men my prophet wail deride!

magic prophecy urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

4338ab3

So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?' 'Exactly.' I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork.

kate-daniels werewolf urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

e101a5b

"Dina, I'm bored," Caldenia announced. Too bad. I guaranteed her safety, not entertainment. "What about your game?" Her Grace gave me a shrug. "I've beaten it five times on the Deity setting. I've reduced Paris to ashes because Napoleon annoyed me. I've eradicated Gandhi. I've crushed George Washington. Empress Wu had potential, so I eliminated her before we even cleared Bronze Age. The Egyptians are my pawns. I dominate the planet. Oddly, I find myself mildly fascinated by Genghis Khan. A shrewd and savage warrior, possessing a certain magnetism. I left him with a single city, and I periodically make ridiculous demands that I know he can't meet so I can watch him squirm."

science-fiction urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

1c7957c

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse [...] stuck in my mind because of the subject's flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your protective circle *before* you start your workings.

magic urban-fantasy

Ben Aaronovitch

316992f

"Your eyes seem to flash every time you stare at me. You look hungry when you look at me." A slight growl rumbled in his chest. "That's a different kind of hunger, Naomi."

romance rancher werewolves shifters paranormal urban-fantasy

Kait Ballenger

e14934e

Mouse isn't big. He's compactly challenged.

humor urban-fantasy

Jim Butcher

ea0783e

Something round and dirty and white was resting near my foot. It was a skull. I picked it up. 'Is that you, Nicholas?' I asked. 'Put that down, Peter,' said Nightingale. 'You don't know where it's been.

urban-fantasy

Ben Aaronovitch

53ab1ca

"But I'll admit that he's kind of offensively delicious" "Like salt and vinegar potato chips" "Exactly"

mallory merit vampire urban-fantasy

Chloe Neill

0d7be9f

"I lived in New York City back in the 1980s, which is when the Bordertown series was created. New York was a different place then -- dirtier, edgier, more dangerous, but also in some ways more exciting. The downtown music scene was exploding -- punk and folk music were everywhere -- and it wasn't as expensive to live there then, so a lot of young artists, musicians, writers, etc. etc. were all living and doing crazy things in scruffy neighborhoods like the East Village. I was a Fantasy Editor for a publishing company back then -- but in those days, "fantasy" to most people meant "imaginary world" books, like Tolkien's . A number of the younger writers in the field, however, wanted to create a branch of fantasy that was rooted in contemporary, urban North America, rather than medieval or pastoral Europe. I'd already been working with some of these folks (Charles de Lint, Emma Bull, etc.), who were writing novels that would become the foundations for the current Urban Fantasy field. At the time, these kinds of stories were considered so strange and different, it was actually hard to get them into print. When I was asked by a publishing company to create a shared-world anthology for Young Adult readers, I wanted to create an Urban Fantasy setting that was something like a magical version of New York...but I didn't want it to actually New York. I want it to be any city and every city -- a place that anyone from anywhere could go to or relate to. The idea of placing it on the border of Elfland came from the fact that I'd just re-read a fantasy classic called by the Irish writer . I love stories that take place on the borderlands between two different worlds...and so I borrowed this concept, but adapted it to a modern, punky, urban setting. I drew upon elements of the various cities I knew best -- New York, Boston, London, Dublin, maybe even a little of Mexico City, where I'd been for a little while as a teen -- and scrambled them up and turned them into Bordertown. There actually IS a Mad River in southern Ohio (where I went to college) and I always thought that was a great name, so I imported it to Bordertown. As for the water being red, that came from the river of blood in the Scottish folk ballad which Thomas must cross to get into Elfland. [speaking about

young-adult fantasy bordertown urban-fantasy ya young-adult-urban-fantasy

Terri Windling

62b32bb

"You got the list?" Lewis asked. "What the hell is the deal with the temperature?" "Razel is not allowed to sweat," Maximo answered. "If she does, fanatics will appear from nowhere like mischievous sprites and bottle each drop and then sell it on eBay for millions."

erotic-romance razel-dazzle urban-fairytale urban-fantasy

Elizabeth Morgan

f7dab59

Snug pants, bandeau-type corset, and trim, motorcycle jacket. It was a fabulous outfit, but it was so urban-fantasy book cover

leather urban-fantasy vampires

Chloe Neill

786eb7e

Once bitten, totally smitten.

romance vampires-romance urban-fantasy ya

Mari Mancusi

74bb295

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say...

romance urban-fantasy ya vampires

Mari Mancusi

cd6aa74

And then he kisses me. Yes, the beautiful vampire, the dark general, the one who never gets close to anyone, leans in and presses his lips against mine. This kiss is soft. Gentle. Light. Like a butterfly's wing whisking my lips.

vampiric paranormal-romance urban-fantasy ya vampires

Mari Mancusi

206bb93

For the record, I would have made a very lousy romance heroine.

romance urban-fantasy vampires

Mari Mancusi

501aab7

I would have made a very crappy book heroine.

book-store vampire-hero paranormal urban-fantasy vampires

Mari Mancusi

aab45d0

I can't go on saving the world if it means neglecting my duties as a cheerleader.

wolves shifters paranormal urban-fantasy ya vampires

Mari Mancusi

10ae4cb

"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing they could do. There is nothing you can do. You were made to feel desire. I was made to use it against you. It is the natural cycle. Life and death. Mating and death. Predator and Prey." Raith leaned closer with each word, and brushed his lips against Murphy's throat as he spoke. "Born mortal. Born weak. And easily taken." ... "And that's only a taste, child. When you know what it is to be truly taken later this night, you will understand that your life ended the moment I wanted you."

house-raith lord-raith dresden-files jim-butcher urban-fantasy

Jim Butcher

d24d869

". . . hated each other so much their feud had become legendary. Half the jokes in the galaxy started with "a vampire and an otrokar walk into a bar...."

science-fiction urban-fantasy

Ilona Andrews

b94192a

"It has nothing to do with you--" "It has everything to do with me that you want to get yourself fucking killed." He snarled, the words tight and full of iron. "Losing you is not an option."

romance blood-series psychics vampire-slayers elizabeth-morgan werewolves urban-fantasy vampires

Elizabeth Morgan

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"I lifted my head, my gaze meeting his. "Wanting something doesn't guarantee you will get it." "A man can still hope." "I've never had much room for hope."

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Elizabeth Morgan

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I've been as good as dead since the day I was born. I accepted that a very long time ago.

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Elizabeth Morgan

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"You have to stop doing, you know, human stuff," I called. "It is seriously creepy coming from a wolf."

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Elizabeth Morgan

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We'll be all right. Somehow, we will. Trust it is the truth.

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Elizabeth Morgan

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Let the past go, Bren, or it will ruin your future.

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Elizabeth Morgan

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My sister, lover of the night, vampire of the Blood Coven, never before seen in anything but the color black, wants to be a pom-pom waving, football field-dancing cheerleader?

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Mari Mancusi

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Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.

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Mari Mancusi

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So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?

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Mari Mancusi

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Why be a vampire if you aren't going to take advantage of the basic wardrobe?

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Mari Mancusi

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It's just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?

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Mari Mancusi

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Have you ever had a moment where you knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you were in the right place? That you were on the right journey? Maybe the sense that you'd crossed a boundary, jumped a hurdle, and somehow, after facing some unconquerable mountain, found yourself suddenly on the other side of it? When the night was warm, and the wind was cool, and a song carried through the quiet streets around you. When you felt the entire world around you, and you were part of it - of the hum of it - and everything was good. Contentment, I suppose, is the simple explanation for it. But it seems more than that, thicker than that, some unity of purpose, some sense of being truly, honestly, for that moment, at home. Those moments never seem to last long enough. The song ends, the breeze stills, the worries and fears creep in again and you're left trying to move forward, but glancing back at the mountain behind you, wondering how you managed to cross it, afraid you really didn't - that the bulk and shadow over your shoulder might evaporate and re-form before you, and you'd be faced with the burden of crossing it again.

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Chloe Neill

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"Despite what you think you know, most people don't want to fight, especially when evenly matched. ... That's why you see those young men doing the dance of "don't hold me back" while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back."

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Ben Aaronovitch

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You were supposed to be a Werewolf, Brendan, so that you would be in her world. To be the strength she needs when she no longer has strength of her own, to show her the reasons to survive and to live.

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