Epic Fantasy Quotes

The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought.

~ C.g. Rousing

Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.

~ Michael Joseph Murano

The Inquisitor waited for silence. Do you believe in anything?Not if I can help it. Belief alone is nothing to be proud of, Inquisitor. Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

~ Joe Abercrombie

We forgive only that which requires forgiveness. To do otherwise is wasteful of grace.” -- Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred

~ Jordan Maclean

He said he’d heard the sound of one hand clapping. He said, once his mind took in the wondrous no-sound of holy oneness, the empty echo of eternal bliss, he was never the same. He could hear it still, he said, resounding in the ether and tickling the back of his brain.Something not normal was going on with his brain. No argument there.

~ Brenda Marie Smith

LILY FELL OUT OF THE SKY.

~ Josephine Angelini

Kato looks ill. “I… It… Me…” He stares at the massive snake. “Big.”,I squeeze his arm. “Don’t worry. You’ll speak in complete sentences again soon.

~ Amanda Bouchet

I don’t know why it’s not universally acknowledged that looking back is a terrible idea. It only makes going forward that much harder.

~ Amanda Bouchet

Desire is often the greatest poison.

~ Karen Azinger

Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate.

~ Karen Azinger

(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.

~ Daniel Mchugh

A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.

~ Daniel Mchugh

At least he possessed enough sense to recognize how little sense he possessed.

~ Daniel Mchugh

Why all this death?You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’.

~ Daniel Mchugh

Those of strong character and training are chosen by fate. They cannot help but rise to the forefront when their nations are troubled.

~ Daniel Mchugh

It is not Love that is the crime and it is not Love that is the sin. It is the absence of it!”ARcher Tariq - A Rising Darkness

~ Nikki Dorakis

...making some noise in the woods is a thing that one can forget. The sound of a man’s voice on the other hand, is something else entirely.

~ Angelo Tsanatelis

Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face. --Nero SlyvenskiALL LIGHT WILL FALL

~ Almney King

I never thought I’d ever leave Zerc. But after knowing Cricket, it occurred to me that I had no reason to stay. I had no family, no friends aside from her. I never even spoke to Enkai until she brought us together. It was she who first inspired me to dream of actually seeing those worlds I spent my every waking moment reading about. Her and her wild heart, her laughing spirit, so bright in her eyes whenever she spoke of her travels and all the wondrous places she had seen. When I was a boy, I envied her for her adventures. When I became a man, I only pitied her.

~ Ash Gray

Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky

~ Ava Richardson

Elijah: You are a dangerous woman.Valeria: You do not know the half of it, but I suppose you are not one to always dabble in safe waters either. So, do you still want to work with me?Elijah: It will be my pleasure.Valeria: Is there anything I need to know about you?Elijah: No!Valeria: That is a lie.Elijah: Is there anything I need to know about you?Valeria: No!Elijah: That is also a lie.Valeria, smiling: Then we are a pair of liars.

~ Cristina M. Sburlea

It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend.

~ Cristina M. Sburlea

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Dear Time,You're so beautiful when You stand still.

~ Jon Ng

One can lose themselves in the twilight, when there are no colors to guide the way.

~ Vanna Smythe

For the wanderer astray, the hermit seeking the lost booksTo him the bitter path of knowledge is truly germaneAnd to gaze at the grand canvas of depravity, the deified crooksAll the depth of duplicity of the celestial rulers most profane.

~ T. M. Lakomy

Lucifer unbound his absolutionHis purpose took unstoppable formA wyrm whose brilliance blindedTenacity burned as radiant as the AlmightyLucifer remembered this so vividlyA fond memory of when God stood thunderstruck

~ D.j. Lemarr

On the revelation that there are no gods or afterlife:-I do not 'like' the truth any more than you Avil, or anyone. I wrestled with it for a long time, for a while I was distraught, desperate to find that my research had been wrong - the more I searched, the deeper I delved the more clear it became that the truth was what it is. After much reflection, I came to the conclusion that though accepting the truth is hard, moving on from that, it becomes clear that the important thing is to make the world we live in a better place. We get one life, it's our duty to make the most of it.~Brael Truthseeker of House KrazicDeathsworn Arc 2 : The Verkreath Horror

~ Martyn Stanley

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight.

~ Vanna Smythe

It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.

~ George R.r. Martin

His gaze ran over her body again, resting on the deepest of the fracture lines in her shields. 'Come here.'Purple feathers fanned around Riana's sides. Sudden tears moistened her eyes at the unexpectedness of what Sier was offering. She sank against him, and his arms folded around her back. Her weight supported, Riana let herself float on the night and tucked her face into his neck. Sier's power closed around her in a violet wave, running into her halo, slipping though her opened shields.

~ Joanna Fay

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

~ Jennifer Renson

The first time I saw Cricket, I loved her. Little did I know that skinny, goofy girl would one day grow up to be a great dragon slayer. I would have pegged her for a shoemaker.

~ Ash Gray

J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and class, journeying to war and returning home. I’ve heard it said that he was trying to create some kind of original British mythology using the structure of other cultures’ myths, and maybe that was true. I don’t know. What I see, when I read his work, is a man trying desperately to dream.Dreaming is impossible without myths. If we don’t have enough myths of our own, we’ll latch onto those of others — even if those myths make us believe terrible or false things about ourselves. Tolkien understood this, I think because it’s human nature. Call it the superego, call it common sense, call it pragmatism, call it learned helplessness, but the mind craves boundaries. Depending on the myths we believe in, those boundaries can be magnificently vast, or crushingly tight.

~ N.k. Jemisin

I'm trying to do what's right, but I don't know if there is a such a thing as a right option anymore. Just different kids of wrong.Breakfast narrowed his eyes at her. Don't get too comfortable with that notion.

~ Josephine Angelini

You'd claim me? he asked, hopeful but cautious.She nodded once. Because I'd never set a monster like you loose in the world.

~ Josephine Angelini

You don't pity a warrior for her scars, because scars are proof of survival and victory.

~ Chloe Jacobs

His gaze hits mine with the force of a battering ram. He looks… appalled. “I-I won’t do this. I can’t… be with you.

~ Amanda Bouchet

Isaac stopped her at the bottom of the stairs with a crooked smile. I would wish you sweet dreams, but how can they be memorable if I won't be in them?

~ Chloe Jacobs

The door opens, and I turn my head, my heart thudding at the sight of Griffin. Tall, broad, muscular but sleek, he stalks into the room like a predator, his gait balanced and sure, his glittering, gray eyes focused entirely on me. Inky hair, a hawkish nose, that stubborn jaw, and thick, black stubble make him look hard and intimidating. With his sword strapped on and his dark brows lowered, he’s a warlord on the prowl. I shiver. I couldn’t want him more.

~ Amanda Bouchet