Fantasy Quotes

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

~ J.m. Barrie

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

~ Lauren Oliver

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

~ George R.r. Martin

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

~ Laini Taylor

I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

~ J.m. Barrie

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

~ Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

~ Libba Bray

Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?

~ Ally Condie

ARE YOU CRAZY? I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

~ Richelle Mead

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

~ Laini Taylor

It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

~ J.m. Barrie

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Into the sky to win or die.

~ Christopher Paolini

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

~ Charles De Lint

Then, in the spirit of benevolence, Your face is well balanced. She slapped him encouragingly on the back, You have very long eyelashes. Like a cow.

~ C.s. Pacat

What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.

~ Sarah J. Maas

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

~ Neil Gaiman

There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

~ J.m. Barrie

Everybody must have a fantasy.

~ Andy Warhol

You belong to all of us, and we belong to you.

~ Sarah J. Maas

There is no such thing as coincidence in this world. The only thing is hitsuzen.Hitsuzen...A naturally fore-ordained event. A state in which all other outcomes are impossible.

~ Clamp

We rode on the winds of the rising storm,We ran to the sounds of the thunder.We danced among the lightning bolts,and tore the world asunder.

~ Robert Jordan

I've been down by the stream collecting berries. Would you care for some?I would, actually, but I don't want to relent too soon. I do walk over and look at them. I've never seen this type before. No, I have. But not in the arena. These aren't Rue's berries, although they resemble them. Nor do they match any I learned about in training. I lean down and scoop up a few, rolling them between my fingers.My father's voice comes back to me. Not these, Katniss. Never these. They're nightlock. You'll be dead before they reach your stomach.Just then the cannon fires. I whip around, expecting Peeta to collapseto the ground, but he only raises his eyebrows. The hoovercraft appears a hundred metres or so away.What's left of Foxface's emaciated body is lifted into the air.

~ Suzanne Collins

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

~ Michael Ende

When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.

~ Suzanne Collins

Who would you be but who you are?

~ Terry Brooks

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

~ Jane Yolen

...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

~ Terry Goodkind

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

~ Michael Grant

If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer...If you're a pretender come sit by my fireFor we have some flax-golden tales to spin.Come in!Come in!

~ Shel Silverstein

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

~ John Connolly

At Tara in this fateful hour,I place all Heaven with its power,And the sun with its brightness,And the snow with its whiteness,And the fire with all the strength it hath,And the lightning with its rapid wrath,And the winds with their swiftness along their path,And the sea with its deepness,And the rocks with their steepness,And the earth with its starkness:All these I place,By God's almighty help and graceBetween myself and the powers of darkness!

~ Madeleine L'engle

Shall we dance,friend of my heart?We shall, little one.

~ Christopher Paolini