Fantasy Fiction Quotes

Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom.

~ Rosemary A. Johns

You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf.

~ Betsy Schow

So an inerrant archer who's inaccurate. Hastra to Athson, from The Bow of Destiny

~ P. H. Solomon

The pieces of the puzzle are visible, but not the grand design. Images flicker and dance like memories, hinting at events to come. They scatter the moment I reach for them only to re-form to taunt me. I who never truly possessed them, nor may I ever.They do tell me this: a time of great change approaches and it’s not enough to watch. We must act. We can’t count on others to do our work for us or all may be lost.- Oracle Lilian’s Diary, Winter of 3765

~ Mara Amberly

Hastra, you think you see, but you don't see this. You never have. Corgren, from The Bow of Destiny

~ P. H. Solomon

The Light shines brightest, when the world is at its darkest.

~ Michael Lackey

Justice lay on the edge o his blessed sword, but revenge - sweet as candy - filled his senses. The Bow of Destiny

~ P. H. Solomon

Names are for those who do not know themselves. Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny

~ P. H. Solomon

When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow.

~ P. H. Solomon

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

~ Brent Weeks

When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow. From The Bow of Destiny

~ P. H. Solomon

All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not wither.Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

~ Stewart Stafford

Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?

~ Michael Moorcock

The demon of revenge had already taken hold of his heart. The cancer of injustice had already eaten at his cheerful soul, leaving a skeleton of a carcass behind, one that could never feel compassion for humans—or anything else—again.

~ Cameron Jace

Then why are you still here?” I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.“Masochism.”“I don’t know what that means.”“It means I like my own pain.”“That doesn’t make sense.”“I’m human. You think we ever make sense?

~ Tessa Maurer

There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an ‘idea’. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave.

~ Leah Broadby

What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.

~ Emilyann Girdner

You know that when a utility company is going down the fantasy route, they are likely hiding some illegal activity that they are engaging in. Fabricating fictional stories to their government regulator is just one of the many illegal activities that they engage in.

~ Steven Magee

The best thing to do when someone is trying to argue with you is to repeatedly state Stay Away and video record the entire event. You may need that video for the police afterwords when the aggressor starts fabricating fantasies about the event.

~ Steven Magee

Light or Death!

~ Brian A. Mcbride

This was a Darkness born of fire.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.

~ Susan Ee

I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Fiction is just a mirror of reality for the most part. Many things that happen in fiction don’t even happen here. But as far as pain and sadness. Joy and love, life and death, it’s all real here. Here it’s real.

~ Lucian Bane

Great! I’m addressing the King of Altoln…about who knows what, but I’m at the centre of it and everyone’s looking at me now, oh for all the gods’ sake Falchion, swallow it down and say something damn you.

~ J.p.ashman

Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?

~ Brandon Mull

The problem with a lot of people who read only literary fiction is that they assume fantasy is just books about orcs and goblins and dragons and wizards and bullshit. And to be fair, a lot of fantasy is about that stuff.The problem with people in fantasy is they believe that literary fiction is just stories about a guy drinking tea and staring out the window at the rain while he thinks about his mother. And the truth is a lot of literary fiction is just that. Like, kind of pointless, angsty, emo, masturbatory bullshit.However, we should not be judged by our lowest common denominators. And also you should not fall prey to the fallacious thinking that literary fiction is literary and all other genres are genre. Literary fiction is a genre, and I will fight to the death anyone who denies this very self-evident truth.So, is there a lot of fantasy that is raw shit out there? Absolutely, absolutely, it’s popcorn reading at best. But you can’t deny that a lot of lit fic is also shit. 85% of everything in the world is shit. We judge by the best. And there is some truly excellent fantasy out there. For example, Midsummer Night’s Dream; Hamlet with the ghost; Macbeth, ghosts and witches; I’m also fond of the Odyessey; Most of the Pentateuch in the Old Testament, Gargantua and Pantagruel.Honestly, fantasy existed before lit fic, and if you deny those roots you’re pruning yourself so closely that you can’t help but wither and die.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and endlessly combinedin living shapes that move from mind to mind.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and be able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

There are two rules for success...1. Never reveal everything you know.

~ Ylond Miles-Davis

The wyvern swooped, but it was not to rend and tear but rather to bank and stare with one curious beady eye at the bodies of the minds that had touched hers in a way that no human had dared to do for hundreds of years. Such a slender and delicate creature, the wyvern thought, and so young, only a child in her reckoning, and yet with so much power.

~ Duncan Harper

I’m Detective Piper of the Fairyland Metro Police, and I've been called in to investigate the incident of the missing frog prince…

~ A.f. Stewart

A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.

~ Iva Kenaz

The world doesn't owe you anything because you're in it, but you owe yourself the world because it is in you.

~ Kat Kaelin