Fantasy Quotes

You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels.

~ Calvin Vronsky

Their blissfully soft texture calmed me but alerted me at the same time. I couldn't explain the gentle spark of light that dripped off the edges. And of course, the aqua trim felt way too familiar.

~ Dianne Bright

We would learn as much as we could, be as honourable as we could, be as courageous as we could, and be as happy as we could.

~ S.l. Mills

Just as he was looking at all the stars and wondering how many millions there were, they started to blink on and off repeatedly. He knew it was the Bach flying overhead. He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, and slipped off into a restless sleep.

~ Stephan Von Clinkerhoffen

I grabbed back at him just as incautiously with my hand and my magic both, even as he pressed magic on me from his side as well. His breath huffed out sharply, and our workings caught on one another, magic gushing into them.

~ Naomi Novik

Dragons, for instance, have the right of safe conduct anywhere in Faërie. A reader may not like to read stories about dragons, she may be morally offended or aesthetically uninterested or simply sick of the subject; but at any rate she will not complain that the author has cheated by bringing in a dragon, because dragons belong in fantasy.

~ Tom Simon

I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city's pesky troll problem, and you're not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, 'Gee, thanks for the warning.' It'll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I'm sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can't let you ruin our lives.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Like the dark clouds above that promised rain but withheld it, her presence there was a lie. For in truth, this horrific slaughter had already damned the small race; their fate had already come and gone.

~ S.j. Pow

There is at least one truth in every myth.

~ Suzy Kassem

He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP? Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Let us consider Elfland as a great national park, a vast and beautiful place where a person goes by himself, on foot, to get in touch with reality in a special, private, profound fashion. But what happens when it is considered merely as a place to get away to?Well, you know what has happened to Yosemite. Everybody comes, not with an ax and a box of matches, but in a trailer with a motorbike on the back and a motorboat on top and a butane stove, five aluminum folding chairs, and a transistor radio on the inside. They arrive totally encapsulated in a secondhand reality. And then they move on to Yellowstone, and it's just the same there, all trailers and transistors. They go from park to park, but they never really go anywhere; except when one of them who thinks that even the wildlife isn't real gets chewed up by a genuine, firsthand bear.The same sort of thing seems to be happening to Elfland, lately.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn’t exist amongst our kind

~ Eve Masters

When I dreamed about becoming a fantasy adventurer, I was always a max-level character with epic gear. Look at me. I’m wearing vendor trash.

~ Noelle Alladania Meade

Forbidden fruit makes a wonderful wine. Vazco gave him a leading look. But leaves a hell of a headache.

~ Susan Scott

With each step, one of them pulled off an earring or a hair extension or a bow and let it fall to the ground, so that by the time they reached the door they had left a trail of glittering accessories behind them. It looked like a grand parade had passed by, and no one had yet come to sweep up the confetti.

~ Damian Wampler

You can't purchase me with a bunch of stones. I wouldn't dream of purchasing you. Cullen laughed low in his chest and smiled, this time showing even white teeth. You're too much trouble. I thought I'd just steal you for a bit.

~ Susan Scott

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

~ Susan Scott

Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself.

~ T.f. Hodge

We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,And we do not fear its light,Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,For therein lies our power.-- Blood Oath of the Iron Elves

~ Chris Evans

And there you stand-Far away from the distant reality,Far away in my breathing dream,Far away in the traces of my livid eyes,Far away in my hostile fantasy.

~ Debatrayee Banerjee

What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence?

~ Susan Scott

You can't order me away, you pissant human-- I just did. Kas swept past him...

~ Susan Scott

Bubble gum on a turd, Madison! You’re a tutti-frutti enforcer. I am a warden. Trust me, I know what I’m doing.

~ Rebecca Chastain

Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting.

~ Rebecca Chastain

This is the right timeThey are the right peopleWill it be enough for mankind?From The Rishis: Book of Secrets.

~ Robert Delgado

How can something as necessary as breathing be immoral?

~ Susan Scott

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

You want fantasy? Here's one... There's this species that lives on a planet a few miles above molten rock and a few miles below a vacuum that'd suck the air right out of them. They live in a brief geological period between ice ages, when giant asteroids have temporarily stopped smacking into the surface. As far as they can tell, there's nowhere else in the universe where they could stay alive for ten seconds. And what do they call their fragile little slice of space and time? They call it real life.

~ Terry Pratchett

At the end of the day, I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. If that makes me an outlaw, so be it. I’ve been called worse.

~ Angela Parkhurst

Even though this world is narrow, it is wide... to those who understand. This world isn't the only one.

~ Clamp

What use is Order without Chaos to challenge its rule? And by the same standard, what lies ahead for us if nothing opposes our ways?

~ Louise Cooper

If there's a place you should be able to put yourself first, it's in your own sexual fantasies.

~ Alyssa Brugman

Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go?

~ Margaret Weis

Good books are never finished but abandoned.

~ Marc Alan Edelheit

What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive.

~ Emilyann Girdner

*I don't want the body,* she whimpered. *It hurts.**Not always, sweetheart. Not always. Without the body, how will you hear a bird's song? How will you feel a warm summer rain on your skin? How will you taste nutcakes? How will you walk on a beach at sunset and feel the sand and surf under your... hooves?*

~ Anne Bishop

Every day is an adventure, or it's just some thing you do. It's your choice.

~ Barry L. Hughes

The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy.

~ Michelle Franklin

If I had known how difficult it was to edit my book, I would have done that first then written the story.

~ Edwin D. Ferretti Iii