Fantasy Quotes

Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it.

~ Tod Langley

(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

~ Vladimir Odoyevsky

Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled,And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.

~ Lionel Pigot Johnson

Love great first lines and paragraphs. From The Yiddish Policemen's Union:Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a yid who was calling himself Emanuel Lasker.

~ Michael Chabon

You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens

~ Andrzej Sapkowski

If they follow the way of Money Chiefs, they shall die. Earth is sick and can no longer care for her children. Now, Earth’s children must care for Earth. Continue to pollute rivers and oceans – rivers and oceans shall drown you. Pollute sky – Sun Spirit shall burn you. Kill more trees – unclean air shall strangle you. Kill more Spirits – disease shall destroy you. Already, Money Chiefs’ skin burns. Their lungs choke on unclean air. Poisoned water spreads disease among them and all Spirits. Rising rivers and oceans shall sweep their homes and lives away. Money Chiefs think money heals broken lives. Unchanged, in the end, Money Chiefs’ money shall cost them their lives. -Frederic Perrin Rella Two Trees―The Money Chiefs

~ Frédéric Perrin

He knew that the disdain for death and crazy courage of youngsters stemmed from a lack of imagination.

~ Andrzej Sapkowski

[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

~ Guy Gavriel Kay

A few steps into the trees, you glance back to see the snow has already covered your prints.

~ Jennifer M Zeiger

The cave sits tucked deep within the mass of rocks that sprout like moles from the forest floor.

~ Jennifer M Zeiger

I have no way to describe this, and I am positive that this is all just a horrible dream I have yet to wake up from. The vice principle is insane. My own uncle is insane. Those stupid kids are insane. Mother Nature is insane...

~ J. Copeland

There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.

~ Rhiannon Thomas

I chose to make your wish come true because I saw through your heart, Yeol. I know how it feels to be so profoundly lonely. I know rejection, I know pain. I know what it’s like to be trapped in an immortal life without love. But you know, Chanyeol; that even if I was a star, I’d still love you.

~ Baeconandeggs

No. You surpass us all. Beside me she looked colorless and frail. You are like a living rose among wax flowers. We may last forever, but you bloom brighter and smell sweeter, and draw blood with your thorns.

~ Margaret Rogerson

You can't mean to dance with the lass; she's great with child!Killian smiled broadly at this. Aye, well, I do indeed intend to dance with her and, aye, I'm aware she carries a child! He leaned closer to the woman and whispered as he spoke the next bit, I'm the man who planted the seed!Och! The woman's ruddy colored cheeks darkened further and she huffed aloud, her continued disapproval evident, so Killian baited her and pushed the issue further still.And were all your six daughters a product of immaculate conception, then, Maire, or were they created in the usual way?

~ Leigh Ann Edwards

None of this is real, my dear. Not this house, not this conversation, not those shoes you're wearing--which are several years out of style if you're trying to reacclimatize yourself to the ways of your peers, and are not proper mourning shoes if you're trying to hold fast to your recent past--and not either one of us. 'Real' is a four-letter-word, and I'll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof.

~ Seanan Mcguire

No more shall the birds or the beasts seek to harm me,From the power that has held them, they will henceforth be set freeAnd should another such attempt dare come to beThe doer of the spell shall be so cursed ten-fold, plus three!

~ Leigh Ann Edwards

I swear the man could seduce the holy mother!

~ Leigh Ann Edwards

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of this: that every word, every act of our Art is said and is done either for good, or for evil. Before you speak or do you must know the price that is to pay!

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I’m not really sure why Ziggy puts up with me.I’m broken. Mostly because of the broken woman who spawned me. I swear, adults should have to get a license to make a kid. Prove they’ve got their shit together before they bring a child into the world. My mom tried, I think. She thought she could piece herself into something resembling a mother by dropping the drugs and dropping the need to feed her overblown selfish streak. But she failed.

~ Rachel A. Marks

Her anger, so useful just moments before, was getting the better of her now. She could hear it; she was too loud. Nira had counseled her again and again on the importance of holding her tongue and her peace. Ironic, given the source, but good advice all the same.

~ Brian Staveley

If you intend to heal the breach,” she went on, “as you claim. If you intend to abide by the treaty we have both signed, then I am the Emperor, Annur’s Emperor, and your Emperor, and you will address me properly.”“I’ve always found that those most insistent on their titles,” Moss replied, “are those least deserving of them.

~ Brian Staveley

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

~ Kate Elliott

There's no secret to winning. Act boldly when you need to, and be cautious when you must.

~ Kate Elliott

My lips twitched into a righteous smile. I felt godlike. Justified. Valko would pay for his crimes here and now, and I wound not weep with regret.

~ Kathryn Purdie

Life is a weirdly themed party

~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

People can always say I don't look impressive enough, but they can't argue over how strong I am once I punch them in the face.

~ F.c. Yee

That is why I take the younger ones, you see. You already give parts of your hearts away so easily--little fragments attached to celebrities, to hobbies, to ill-fated love affairs. Your kind have the best chance at survival.

~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

I like to keep my dreams attainable. Eat cheese, sleep on a nice bed, have my work in the same museum as Rothko--the usual.

~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

This is what we are for, Alin,” the older guardsman said, turning to his companion. Adare had never heard anyone use Birch’s first name. She hadn’t even known it herself. “Our lives for hers. If she refuses this, there’s no saying what the zealots will do to her.”“There’s no saying what the zealots will do if she agrees,” Birch pointed out. “We can’t save her if we’re dead.”“That is a risk that the princess will have to assess for herself. Our duty is to serve.”“I thought service meant fighting,” Birch protested, but the anger had gone out of him. Resignation thinned his voice.“Sometimes, Alin,” Fulton replied, nodding. “And sometimes it means dying.

~ Brian Staveley

We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history books.

~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

I just want to matter,' he said unsmiling. It was like pulling a curtain back, peering behind a mask made of smiles and quips. This was the real James, this young, bright, desperate thing. There was a burning intensity to his eyes, and she saw for the first time a boy who would sell his heart--not for some hobby, but because he thought it was the only way to life the life he wanted. They had that in common.

~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

Knitting is a good way to pass the time when you're waiting for something to die.

~ David Demchuk

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He had never been willing to believe that life had to be as gray and dull as people claimed. He heard them saying: “Life is like that,” but he couldn’t agree. He never stopped believing in mysteries and miracles.

~ Michael Ende

The God-War is coming.

~ John Gwynne

But were they truly victims? If they made a deal, knowing fully what they were trading for a wish--but then again, could a person ever truly know the consequences of giving away their heart?

~ Emily Lloyd-Jones

I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.

~ Jack Vance

Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty children, you will always have food on the table. They are never in short supply.

~ David Demchuk

Inside, a deep-rooted force raged, buried in her psyche from eons before, percolating with a primordial awakening that had been long forgotten, until now.

~ R. W. Patterson