Fantasy Quotes

She did not want to know what charmhe had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not want to know it wasn’t real.

~ Penelope Marzec

The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.

~ David Clement-Davies

I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch

~ Andrea K. Höst

Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.

~ Roderick Townley

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God.

~ J.c. Marino

The girl burst out laughing, she knew she was nobody's meat.

~ Angela Carter

Good, if you were not part Lycanthrope that blow would have killed you. Now, stop fighting your pain and embrace it.

~ Lee Taylor

Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

~ Terry Pratchett

Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanalysts have focused on the narcissist's need to bolster his or her self-esteem through grandiose fantasy, exaggerated ambition, exhibitionism, and feelings of entitlement.

~ Donald W. Black

There are things that make no sense,that seem unreal,that can’t be grasped or understoodor explained,that maybe don’t even exist…And still, somehow, those wonderful things touch and change our lives.Isn’t it strange?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

He felt in his heart cruelty and cowardice, the things which made him brave and kind.

~ T.h. White

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of fiction all the way through. He did remember, as a small boy, being really annoyed at the depiction of Hickory Dickory Dock in a rag book of nursery rhymes because the clock in the drawing was completely wrong for the period.

~ Terry Pratchett

Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.

~ Adrianne Ambrose

... They paid some madman who thought he was a decorator a lot of money to make the place look hip and unique. May be it's my lack of fashion sense talking, but I thought they should have held out for one of those gorillas who has learned to paint. The results would have been of similar quality, and they could have paid in fresh produce.- Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

~ Jim Butcher

From DW:I got it. “Here's the thing,” I said. I'm not going to be the government's bitch.

~ Tamara Rose Blodgett

You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is achievable girls, anything at all!

~ Nathalie M. Leblanc

I think the measure of advancement depends on where you are stood and from what distance you look. A thousand years ago, we farmed the fields, built towns and defended our land with swords and spears. It is little different now, save for the number of people we have to protect. We still kill with a sharp edge or point of metal, blood runs red still, sons ride off to war and parents grieve. If you look at the Empire in its whole, then it is peaceful. If you look closely, you will see the small wars, the bandits and rebellions. Look more closely still and you’ll see the petty crimes, the struggle to survive, the rich bleeding the poor. Even the soil can turn against its farmers, yielding few crops. Or the weather, a late frost killing the early crops. There is strife and conflict everywhere in the Empire. Everywhere you find men, you find conflict.

~ G.r. Matthews

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

~ R. Scott Bakker

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

~ Sam Savage

I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.

~ Chautona Havig

The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have always known that the big surprises await us where we have learned to be surprised by nothing, that is, where we are not shocked by ruptures in the order.

~ Julio Cortázar

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue and Power, sain us and shield us with Your Swift Sure Hand.

~ Stephen R. Lawhead

The last book I picked up had a picture of the Stranger on the front cover. Although his eyes were not nearly as beautiful in my dream state, they still took my breath away. I opened it up curiously and there was one word written in a large, bolded font: FATE.

~ Markelle Grabo

I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I’m afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.

~ Keith Kekic

I didn't want him to think I was giving up - I wasn't. I simply couldn't put myself together just yet.

~ Markelle Grabo

Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns.

~ Ness Kingsley

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

~ Emma Donoghue

Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter

~ Richard Due

What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trism lived in Liir's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress habillards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trism's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

~ Gregory Maguire

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.

~ Brian Rathbone

It felt like he’d been dragged through the nine circles of hell — by his testicles.

~ Kay Berrisford

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth....but wisdom sneaks in through the ears....

~ Gail Z. Martin

Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

~ Terri Windling

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

~ Neil Gaiman

The most awesome powers are those not wielded.

~ Brian Rathbone

Mothers are like dungeons. Some really stink and you'll do anything to avoid them. And some are lush sanctuaries filled with gold, jewels, and butterscotch schnapps-spiked Nestle Nesquik.

~ Shelly Mazzanoble

The story of Terisa and Geraden began very much like a fable. She was a princess in a high tower. He was a hero come to rescue her. She was the only daughter of wealth and power. He was the seventh son of the lord of the seventh Care. She was beautiful from the auburn hair that crowned her head to the tips of her white toes. He was handsome and courageous. She was held prisoner by enchantment. He was a fearless breaker of enchantments.As in all the fables, they were made for each other.

~ Stephen R. Donaldson

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice.

~ Larry Itejere

Where's the victory without opposition?--Joel

~ Rachael Wade