Fantasy Fiction Quotes

The ego of a god, the wit of a goldfish.

~ Shah Wharton

It was hard to describe what she had sensed, but it had been distinct and clear, like the shape of a leafless tree against the sky, or a crow flying across a ploughed field. She hesitated to close her eyes again, for it had risen up close to her face like something appalling.

~ Jessica Rydill

We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.

~ Wynn Mercere

A lot of things have changed and will change, I can only wish you the best as it happens.Malice

~ Courtney Winnie

Evil people can still keep promises. Many have done just that, girl, though they are usually not promises you ‘rational’ people wish them to keep.

~ Tim Reed

As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…

~ Marissa Meyer

IN MY DEFENSE, I didn’t mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn’t just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear financial motive: The end of the world is bad for business.

~ J.c. Nelson

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.

~ Tessa Maurer

(we appreciated the intricately thought-out, detailed universe you've created for your story. ~Arthur A. Levine Books (publishers of The Harry Potter series.)) about my book!

~ Arthur A. Levine Books

All of us, together, are the unlovable, the unreformable. We, the people, who are deemed incapable of existing alongside society. But, we did just that in the forming of this guild. We have done more than simply build a place to sleep and eat and plan elaborate heists. We have found a place that we, at long last, belong. All of you remember how important that feeling was the first time you truly experienced it here… This guild is more than just an organization and a council and various members. To me, from the beginning, this guild has been a family. It is a place for people like us, the ones who had no place of their own. We made it ourselves, carved out a space in the world that we could call home.

~ Drew Hayes

Trying to shatter peace, even if it’s not one you agree with, is the work of the mad and the wicked.

~ Drew Hayes

One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.

~ C.s. Lewis

Just remember who you are... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

I think love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.

~ Peter S. Beagle

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

~ Bill Willingham

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

~ Charles De Lint

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

~ Terry Goodkind

But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

~ Alexandra Adornetto

there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.

~ Carolyn Turgeon

If one chooses sides on emotion then the rebel is the guy to go with. He is fighting for everything men claim to honour, freedom, independance, truth, the right.......all the subjective illusions. All the eternal trigger words. We are minions of the villan of the piece. We confess the illusion and deny the substance.

~ Glen Cook

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

~ Jim Butcher

Dreams are glimpses into life’s truths.

~ Larry Itejere

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in

~ Carolyn Turgeon

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

~ Neil Gaiman

Gray, the colour of forgetting.

~ Daniel Arenson

I CLOSED MY EYES AND PRETENDED SHE WAS YOU. illutions- aprilynne pike

~ Aprilynne Pike

It's a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

~ Carolyn Turgeon

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.

~ Karsten Knight

But why? Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. What is happening to us?Who knows? Maya shrugged. Who cares? Enjoy it while you can, why don't you? There will be tons of boring shit in your life, okay? I promise.

~ Ekaterina Sedia

Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it

~ Carolyn Turgeon

I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.. They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.

~ Carolyn Turgeon

I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person

~ John C. Wright

Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads,Its master's step is brisk;The Sword of Wisdom lightens loadsBut adds unto their risk.

~ Fred Saberhagen

Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that?

~ Carolyn Turgeon

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?

~ Carolyn Turgeon

It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.This world was dead.

~ Angelo Tsanatelis

If the other novice wizards on the row hadn't broken into Raeshaldis's rooms, pissed on her bed and written WHORE and THIEF on the walls, she probably would have been killed on the night of the full moon.

~ Barbara Hambly

To be a convincing story, you've got to know what you're talking about. In EVERY detail.-Rayner Unwin

~ Jeff Shanley

Everything changed for Simon Falke the first time he fell through the fire.

~ Sam Whitehouse

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

~ Neil Gaiman