Fantasy Quotes

Beauty is harsh.

~ Cassandra Clare

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

~ E.j. Stevens

I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people.

~ Peter S. Beagle

He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.

~ Dee Marie

...The next time I opened my eyes, I was in the morgue.This, all by itself, is enough to really ruin your day.I was lying on the examining table, and Butters, complete with his surgical gown and his tray of autopsy instruments, stood over me.'I'm not dead!' I sputtered. 'I'm not dead!'- Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

~ Jim Butcher

As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.

~ J.k. Rowling

Hey! I turned, crossing my arms and glaring. I was talking to him!Tybalt eyed me with amusement, which just made me glare harder. No, you were inciting him to stab you with a toothpick. Again, the difference is small, but I think it matters.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?

~ Trudi Canavan

Sarcasm, as it turned out--even when it was instinctive and quick--cut into the time one had to manufacture one's escape.

~ Mel Odom

The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

~ Priya Ardis

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?''To where they treat me like royalty,' I said.'We're going to Burger King?'I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.''Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please'- Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

~ Jim Butcher

Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

~ J.m. Barrie

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatnessbegins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you

~ Jim Butcher

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

~ Neil Gaiman

My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ''You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

~ Jim Butcher

Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos?

~ Kaori Naruse

Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....

~ Brian Jacques

Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

~ Patricia A. Mckillip

He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.

~ Patricia Briggs

All was shattered, and all but memory lost, and one memory above all others, of him who brought the Shadow and the Breaking of the World. And him they named Dragon.

~ Robert Jordan

Jimmy: When you die, I dieSora: Wow, that's some serious relationship!

~ Shiro Amano

I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently.“No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!

~ Diana Wynne Jones

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

~ Terry Pratchett

Rise, Luthiel, in the name of love you came and in the name of love I crown you!

~ Robert Fanney

I am as you say a skeleton and i have been for quite a while

~ Skullduggery Pleasant

Unhappy people needs your smile more than Happy people do

~ Vianka Van Bokkem

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind fades. As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark inns, my mood swung from elation to doubt in the space of three brief breaths.I had ruined everything. All the things I had said, things that seemed so clever at the time, were in fact the worst things a fool could say. Even now she was inside, breathing a sigh of relief to finally be rid of me.But she had smiled. Had laughed.She hadn't remembered our first meeting on the road from Tarbean. I couldn't have made that much of an impression on her.'Steal me,' she had said.I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

~ Maurice Sendak

The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is.

~ Keiichi Sigsawa

Aren't we forever?

~ Cassandra Clare

Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it is tactful to pretend you think she is a boy. She/he will be ignorant, hasty and shy, and will need hauling out of trouble quite a lot. But she/he will grow up in the course of the Tour. In fact she/he will be the only Companion who will change in any way. Quite often, she/he will soon exhibit a very useful talent for magic and end up by hauling everyone else out of trouble. But this will not be until midway through your second brochure.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender your will to change and experience life. But options are before you, choose one and dedicate yourself to it. The deeds will give you a new hope and purpose.

~ Christopher Paolini

Your Majesty,” Durzo said gravely. “A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend beyond a tedious reiteration of the excreta that fills the void between his ears.” - Durzo Blint

~ Brent Weeks

She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such stories that we wake in the night, dreaming dreams of a life long past. she reminds us of what we used to be.She reminds us of what we could be.

~ Meagan Spooner

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.

~ Leonard S. Marcus

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

~ Neil Gaiman

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

~ Orson Scott Card

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

~ Gregory Maguire

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

~ Eloise Jarvis Mcgraw