Fantasy Quotes

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.

~ Gail Carson Levine

The love of Arda was set in your hearts by Ilúvatar, and he does not plant to no purpose.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Few men are a threat to a fully-trained w

~ Scott Robert Scheller

This is what a castle sounded like when it died, and he knew he would never forget it.

~ Steven Poore

Here's a tragedy for you. Arca the Brave, one of the last heroes of Cape Magister, the man who held the line at the Usurper's Fields, who saw even the mighty Guhl fall and die... now he sleeps on my floor and begs for scraps like a dog. Perhaps there are some wars that are not worth fighting.

~ Steven Poore

Fireball doesn’t need a search warrant.

~ Bryan Fields

I will never understand why you Humans weren’t designed to recycle your body’s water after filtering waste. It’s just so much more efficient.

~ Bryan Fields

It is dangerous to become attached to a du Lac. He will break your heart, and you will not recover.

~ Mary Anne Yarde

Once upon a time there was war, and starvation, and death. Once upon a time we would kill our brothers and sisters, fearing for our own lives. Once upon a time the characters turned from us, and we wept. Now we do not war, nor do we fear, nor do we weep. We Redact.

~ F.d. Lee

Folks love fantasy. Beasts the shit outta reality and day of the week.

~ Garth Ennis

The finding of the Valley is paramount for your kind. Survival for your race…even survival for the human race…depends on it. This quest is more important than you can ever understand. It will affect every living thing in this world for millennia to come. Do not waver from the search, no matter how difficult it may be.

~ Simon Skiles

I can’t take back the past, Nadya. Not even we Unicorns can do that. But I’ll be damned if someone else is going to control our future. I’ve been away for too long, and I will always regret not being there for the Rourakin. But I have returned, and I am not leaving again.

~ Simon Skiles

How else do I describe what I see…what I feel? When I look at a plant, I do not see a green object. I see Life. I see energy. I see a will to exist like no other. When I see an animal, I see more than fur and bone and blood. I see Love. Love is all around us. And in us. And through us. Love is us. It is everywhere. I see it. I feel it. I hear it. I only wish all of you could, too. If you could experience what I do every moment of every day, there would be no anger, no hate, no killing. I want to share what I know with the entire universe, but my words fall on deaf ears. People go right on fighting and hating and killing. And there is nothing I can do.

~ Simon Skiles

Time is indifferent of the events and triumphs and tragedies of mankind, and really even, for the most part, of its own inexorable passage.

~ Ross Turner

He had an image in his mind of a gaggle of long-necked geese, all done up in petticoats and crinolines, sitting around a stuffy parlor and talking about him.

~ Stefan Bachmann

Death drives desire.

~ Rosemary A. Johns

Zane was pretty sure that worries and bossing were related, like a pair of old aunties.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet?

~ C.j. Milbrandt

Adventure is something that happens to someone else. When it's happening to you, it's only trouble.

~ Gerald Morris

He gazed into eyes the color of a summer morning sky and sighed. It felt as if his soul had just come home.

~ Grace Willows

But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.--Nereid

~ Rick Riordan

...Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The mad tend to crave it, many of the sane crave it, but the wise worry about its long-term effects. Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul. Power’s comings and goings, from host to host, via war, marriage, ballet box, diktat, and accident of birth, are the plot of history. The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral.” Immaculée Constantin now looks up at me. “Power will notice you. Power is watching you now. Carry on as you are, and power will favor you. But power will also laugh at you, mercilessly, as you lie dying in a private clinic, a few fleeting decades from now. Power mocks all its illustrious favorites as they lie dying…

~ David Mitchell

Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome

~ Steven Erikson

Ay, you've already seen that you and your master aren't quite at home in this world, at least not like before.' Terence nodded slowly. 'It'll only get stronger, too,' Robin continued. 'Soon you'll find yourself looking into people's eyes to see if they've been there. And once you find someone who has, you'll greet him as a long-lost friend and take him to your heart.

~ Gerald Morris

Each day Marda gets closer. The sub circles coral reefs off the coasts, where mermaids are said to like the colors of the schools of fishes, and train them to swim around their necks like jewelry or live behind their ears, beneath their long hair. Sometimes mermaids like shallow places, but mostly they like the dark and the beautiful, uncharted, abandoned, soulless parts of the undiscovered world.

~ Holly Walrath

Because my weakness has always been her, it would always be her.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.

~ Terry Pratchett

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

~ Fritz Leiber

Are you educated in the art of medicine?” Yeah, the art of Walgreens and Urgent Care. “A bit,” I hedged.

~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

Do not fear death, fear sleeping without waking up instead.

~ Abc

Words didn’t come. I couldn’t formulate a thought. I was too startled. These three figures lying in the sand in front of me weren’t surfers at all. They weren’t even people. From their facial features and upper torsos, they looked kind of like women, but all three of them had silver-colored skin. They were bald, with strange ridges marking their skulls. None of them seemed to have ears, only holes in the sides of their heads. No nose was visible, not even a bone or nostrils filled that space between their eyes and mouths. Although their mouths seemed to be moving, they were actually breathing through what looked like gills in their necks. And if that wasn’t weird enough, instead of legs, their upper torsos stretched out into long, scale-covered, silver fishtails. If I had to say what these things stranded in front of me, splattered with oil, appeared to be, I’d say mermaids. And no, they didn’t look like they’d start singing songs or granting me wishes. They looked a little bit scary—but fragile too. Most of all, they looked like they were going to die, and no handsome prince was there to kiss them and keep them from turning into sea foam.

~ D.g. Driver

People don’t like to guess. It’s easier to know something by how it immediately appears. Dark, hard metal is known as it appears, and so dark, hard people are built from it. Marble is smooth and pale and bright like the faces chipped into it. But that’s something about life, what you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better. If they could speak, do you think they’d all be the same?

~ Devon Michael

In the space between wake and sleep, where the real world juxtaposes with the imagination, that's where I live.

~ Mica Rossi

You know those vampire myths? Bollocks to them.

~ Rosemary A. Johns

…dancing in the carnage and the flames.

~ Rosemary A. Johns

Do you feel it? That roaring call?

~ Rosemary A. Johns

Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom.

~ Rosemary A. Johns

Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow

~ Carrie Hope Fletcher