War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a slow attrition of …

- Kate Forsyth

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in whic…

- Kate Forsyth

Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a butterfly caught in amber, a cat's…

- Kate Forsyth

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of …

- Kate Forsyth

There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & …

- Kate Forsyth

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

- Kate Forsyth

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

- Kate Forsyth

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough and sharp enough to slit your …

- Kate Forsyth