Fantasy Quotes

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

~ Marc Chagall

I like big books and I cannot lie.You other readers can’t denyThat when a kid walks in with The Name of the WindLike a hardbound brick of win.Story bling.Wanna swipe that thingCause you see that boy is speedingRight through the book he’s reading.I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading.Wanna curl up with that for ages,All thousand pages.Reviewers tried to warn me.But with that plot you hookedMe like Bradley.Ooh, crack that fat spine.You know I wanna make you mine.This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella.

~ Jim C. Hines

None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.

~ Steven Erikson

Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint

~ Brent Weeks

You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary.

~ Daniel Mchugh

Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew.

~ Ray Bradbury

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

~ Stuart Hill

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.

~ Cees Nooteboom

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

~ Jack Vance

Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the realistic to know that the story matters, enough of the fantastic to make what matters wonderful

~ Eric S. Rabkin

Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?

~ Ethan Gilsdorf

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

~ Carlyle Labuschagne

With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow;But that, ah! that was long ago.How far, since then, the ocean streamsHave swept us from that land of dreams,That land of fiction and of truth,The lost Atlantis of our youth!Whither, ah, whither? Are not theseThe tempest-haunted Orcades,Where sea-gulls scream, and breakers roar,And wreck and sea-weed line the shore?Ultima Thule! Utmost Isle!Here in thy harbors for a whileWe lower our sails; a while we restFrom the unending, endless quest.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Do you get the same peace of mind that I do when you're causing random damage? Especially random, senseless, mindless damage that serves no real purpose. That's my favorite kind, you know! That's the best!

~ Robin Wayne Bailey

Although now long estranged,Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned,and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned: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.Though all the crannies of the world we filledwith Elves and Goblins, though we dared to buildGods and their houses out of dark and light,and sowed the seed of dragons- 'twas our right(used or misused). That right has not decayed:we make still by the law in which we're made.Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, May your day be full of angry dragons or, May every dragon you meet today be pissed off. But, there should have been.

~ Michelle Sagara West

Never tease anything that wants to eat you. Reign of Blood

~ Alexia Purdy

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

~ André Breton

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

~ P.d. James

Darkness, no matter how powerful it may seem, can be driven back by the tiniest spark.

~ Brian Rathbone

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

~ R. Scott Bakker

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.

~ Michael Richardson

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water.

~ S.m. Wheeler

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature.It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

~ Lian Hearn

Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.

~ Laini Taylor

It’s okay. I’m—”“Fine?” Joseph chimed in. “Obviously not. You need to be checked out by a doctor.” “I am a doctor.” I rolled my eyes at him, but that didn’t deter him from his train of thought. “Not that kind of doctor.”“What is ‘that kind of doctor’ going to say when they see my shimmering pink blood, Joseph?” I changed my voice to mimic one of a concerned doctor. “I’m sorry ma’am, you appear to be suffering from a mild case of Pretty Pretty Princess syndrome. Have you ingested any magical woodland faeries recently?

~ Laura Kreitzer

The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.

~ William D. Burt

Maxine,” Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain, forming the root of so muchagonized rage.“ ‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,’” I muttered.“Yoda, from Star Wars?”“ ‘Hate leads to suffering.’” I met his gaze. “Yoda knows his shit, man.”Grant’s mouth crooked in a gentle smile.

~ Marjorie M. Liu

Wow! It's like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. It's God's love. That's stronger than any magic. - The Demon Trapper's Daughter

~ Jana Oliver

Never practice magic when you're drunk.

~ Assaph Mehr

Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawers will strike to extinguish the rest.The hope of the hopeless resides in a quest.An Overland warrior, a son of the sun,May bring us back light, he may bring us back none.But gather your neighbors and follow his callOr rats will most surely devour us all.Two over, two under, of royal descent,Two flyers, two crawlers, two spinners assent.One gnawer beside and one lost up ahead.And eight will be left when we count up the dead.The last who will die must decide where he stands.The fate of the eight is contained in his hands.So bid him take care, bid him look where he leaps,As life may be death and death life again reaps.

~ Suzanne Collins

One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.

~ Lori R. Lopez

The flowers like me back.

~ John H. Carroll

Three Pines wasn’t on any tourist map, being too far off any main or even secondary road. Like Narnia, it was generally found unexpectedly and with a degree of surprise that such an elderly village should have been hiding in this valley all along. Anyone fortunate enough to find it once usually found their way back.

~ Louise Penny

Love is a madness. Love is Failer - Durzo Blint

~ Brent Weeks

Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

~ Robert Musil

The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking for it, and when you first think you might have glimpsed it, you have to will it into your life with every machination available to you.

~ Megan Lindholm

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

~ Jane Yolen

She had learned to pay attention to the variations in Rokan's smiles. There was the sideways half-smile when he found something amusing; the slow, contented smile that appeared only rarely these days; and the wide, dazzling, unrestrained smile she had so far seen only twice, when he first came for her in the Mistwood and when they watched the hawk soar against the sky. And then there was this one, the reason for her watchfulness: the impish grin that meant he wanted to do something he knew was stupid and was going to do it anyhow.

~ Leah Cypess

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

~ A. Lee Martinez