Fantasy Quotes

Dad looked more sheepish than I had ever seen him look in his life. It made him appear younger.“A scent. Your mother’s shampoo.

~ J.a. Ironside

Light or Death!

~ Brian A. Mcbride

My love, a person is better judged by how they treat their inferiors than their betters. That is the true measure of a man, or a woman. Think you that you are so far above Lata?If I am to be your wife then I shall be far above her and she had better do as she is told if she wants to stay employed here!I've ruined you. My poor little mango seller. Nadir let go of my wrist and stepped away, his face hardening. You shall not be my wife if you cannot treat people with the respect they not only deserve, but earn every day by working so hard for it!'Mangoes

~ J.a. Ironside

Once I finished reading a good book, it gives me a hard time coping up with reality.

~ Nathalie M. Llanto

This was a Darkness born of fire.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

Such a distant, forgotten thing, this Light.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

Being on the edge is always worse than going through.

~ Joseph Brown

The only things worth seeing are beyond what you can actually see.

~ Joseph Brown

As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation.

~ Fennel Hudson

The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

I could not recall the last time I had been so flagrantly insulted.Don't make enemies, I told myself.Swallow your pride.Hold your tongue.But the fact was, I had real difficulty with those particular virtues.

~ Jen Crane

Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

~ Salman Rushdie

Err on the side of awesome.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Am I your weakness?Of course you are.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

At his words not my body, but my soul bucked, decimating barriers that until then had been untouched.

~ Jen Crane

You’re injured.” He flicks his chin at my bleeding leg.“We need to get that cleaned up.”“It’ll be fine,” I wave it off. “My mom will descend upon me with a bottle ofperoxide the second I hit the door.

~ M.a. George

Choose well how to live the next moment.

~ D. Thourson Palmer

I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer.

~ Robert Jordan

He’s close enough now that I can hear his footfall on the pavement, and I knowmy chances of outrunning him are slim. I’m practically in a full sprint, and mypounding heart is begging me to take it down a notch. I try to will my feet to keep pace with its beat; but I think it’s humanly impossible to run that fast. And then it dawns on me that my footsteps are the only ones I hear. Somewhere along the way, Tristan’s must have come to a stop. And I can’t quite explain why I’m running this fast in the first place. I slow to a jog, intending to just pick up with my original pace; but I can’t seem to suck in breaths fast enough to propel my feet any further. My molten shoes stutter to a stop, as my hands come to rest on my knees. I’m still wheezily sucking in breath after breath of thick, humid air, when I warily turn tolook over my shoulder.Tristan’s standing about fifty feet back, hands on his hips and a comp

~ M.a. George

Archomai is where believing is being.

~ T.a. Cline

She was the lover of two mighty kings.She was their Chalice.The certainty of the knowledge settled over her shoulders like a weighty mantle. She might not know where she came from, but she knew where she was going. She knew who she wanted to be, who she was.She was the queen of Amendal, leader and protector of the dal.Time to start acting the part. She stood and pulled them up with her. Amendal was still in danger, and she would not stand for it any longer.By Aiea, and all the gods of Odren, no more would die today.

~ Elizabeth Varlet

He patted the side of the wyrm's head. The animal did not react: it was a stone fallen from the sky, still smoldering.

~ Zachary Jernigan

The irony of life is we always compare our fantasies with reality, rather than accepting the reality as is and transforming it into a paradise....

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

He’s close enough now that I can hear his footfall on the pavement, and I knowmy chances of outrunning him are slim. I’m practically in a full sprint, and my pounding heart is begging me to take it down a notch. I try to will my feet to keep pace with its beat; but I think it’s humanly impossible to run that fast. And then it dawns on me that my footsteps are the only ones I hear. Somewhere along the way, Tristan’s must have come to a stop. And I can’t quite explain why I’m running this fast in the first place. I slow to a jog, intending to just pick up with my original pace; but I can’t seem to suck in breaths fast enough to propel my feet any further. My molten shoes stutter to a stop, as my hands come to rest on my knees. I’m stillwheezily sucking in breath after breath of thick, humid air, when I warily turn to look over my shoulder.Tristan’s standing about fifty feet back, hands on his hips and a comp

~ M.a. George

A word is a small song.

~ Larry Good

Leaves lift trees.

~ Larry Good

I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.

~ Ashley Earley

As one of the little streams starts snaking my way, inching closer to the toe of my shoe, I hop over the spreading puddle and out of its reach. I don’t look back to see if it’s going to follow me. I’m already three blocks away and still gaining speed

~ M.a. George

All kidding aside…” I focus back on Pyke, genuine sincerity in my tone.“Thank you…for everything. For dragging my ‘clueless ass’ through the ocean, andover hill and vale, when you knew it was futile and stupid—but that I’d still try to do it, with or without your help. Thanks for tracking me down when I was alone and helpless; and for giving me a voice when I thought all hope was lost—”“Ugh, for crying out loud…Enough already,” Pyke squirms, a nauseatedgrimace twisting his hairy face. “Now you’re going way overboard with thegratitude…That kind of gushy crap is meant to be dished out in small doses,” he gripes. “Please make it stop…before I have to snap my own neck, just to end the suffering.” He backs away into the crowd, giving Tristan’s shoulder one more slap with a sly wink. “Hurry up, Man, and do something. Kiss her, muzzle her…shove a sock in her mouth—

~ M.a. George

Fair enough…No inhaling battery acid,” I smirk. “We can’t breathe batteryacid, can we?

~ M.a. George

Closed head trauma is about as much fun as nude paintballing.

~ D.c. Farmer

Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette.

~ D.c. Farmer

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel.

~ Brian A. Mcbride

Most of the time romance isn't even about love, anyway. It's about escape. Fantasy. Salvation from the mundane. Save me from boredom, from exhaustion, from my undersexed body, from microwave dinners and reality TV, from going to bed alone with a vibrator or a cat. Save me from my desperately ordinary life.

~ Leah Raeder

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

~ Criss Jami

Your embrace feels like slipping the key in the front door.

~ Leanne Mechelle

He danced across my heart like a pirate,Constantly discovering my secrets,Turning over every hidden treasure,Drowning me in his fantasy.

~ Tanzy Sayadi

Mean people are meaningless.

~ Alice Hoffman

It was a miracle to live as birds do, except for one thing: anyone seen in flight would surely be captured, perhaps even shot down like a crow flying above a cornfield. It's always dangerous to be different, to appear as a monster in most people's eyes, even from a distance.

~ Alice Hoffman