Fantasy Quotes

Thinking sure could get a fellow in a lot of trouble. Almost as much as opening his big gabber and sticking his muddy foot in it.

~ Gillian Bronte Adams

They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man,' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we?

~ Gillian Bronte Adams

There were problems with having a reputation like his. Folks either wanted your hide or wanted you to save theirs. There was never any happy, indifferent middle ground.

~ Gillian Bronte Adams

I am Mae Waylander from Halts-Walden, daughter of Robert Wallander, a good man who lost his life saving hers.' I point to Ellen. 'And I am the girl who has saved your brother's life on numerous occasions in the Waerg Woods - who fought off a wood nymph, a psychotic pre-adolescent prophet, and a determined flock of killer birds - only to have your father shoot an arrow in my side because I wouldn't let him kill my stag.

~ Sarah Dalton

I am Mae Waylander from Halts-Walden, daughter of Robert Waylander, a good man who lost his life saving hers.' I point to Ellen. 'And I am the girl who has saved your brother's life on numerous occasions in the Waerg Woods - who fought off a wood nymph, a psychotic pre-adolescent prophet, and a determined flock of killer birds - only to have your father shoot an arrow in my side because I wouldn't let him kill my stag.

~ Sarah Dalton

But I say that this isn't the Underground. We are the Underground. You . . . me . . . all of your brothers, sisters, friends. This cavern is nothing more than a hole in the ground. We make it something more. No matter where we are, so long as we survive and stick together, the Underground is not lost.

~ Gillian Bronte Adams

The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.

~ Sully Tarnish

Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.

~ Sully Tarnish

Love can open like a flower out of even the hardest places.

~ Lauren Oliver

As a demigod - Fen cleared his throat - I am flush with power. My power can be transformed into the kind of energy you need to feed. As he spoke, his eyes sparked with something feral that sent shivers racing down my spine. It can happen from touch, kissing, but the greatest source is during the act of... Ohmygodsinheaven. Sex? Are you referring to sex?... My power becomes concentrated for... a very brief moment. It's all about the transfer of energy from one body to another. He looked wildly uncomfortable. All who live in Asgard know this already. I've never had to explain it to someone. His semen packs a punch?

~ Amanda Carlson

I sighed. Would it be too much to ask that Asgard be peaceful? Made up of big, fluffy clouds, serenity, and lots of hot yoga?

~ Amanda Carlson

As many of you know, I am not very fond of the human race. However, I will not let them die by the hands of our species nor any other. For thousands of years, we've walked this earth in peace with them, and a war is not in the best interest of either party. It'll only create suffering and tragedy on both sides. We can't allow this to happen. Our only option is to find him and kill him.

~ Christine Gabriel

Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.

~ M. Robert Randolph

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.

~ Sydney Marie Hughes

It seemed everything would be alright after all.

~ Ross Turner

A full harvest moon lit the sky. In its glow, there appeared an old woman dressed in black lace. A shimmering veil covered her head. With her back to the old oak tree, she keened wildly. Her cry was carried by the autumn winds and lost on the wings of the nightingales.

~ Annemarie Dapp

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy.

~ Jewel

Dust is not a constant. There’s not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust—they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious…Then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window. So there could be one left open.

~ Philip Pullman

You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.

~ A. Merc Rustad

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

Adapt or die. It was savagely simple. -- CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL

~ Almney King

Where have they gone? Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

~ Susanna Clarke

Fantasy or fiction is just a persons secret life. A world they want to be in. The only diffrence between them and you, is that they wrote it down in detail, printed it and shared it with the world.

~ Mariana Hak

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.

~ Walter Moers

I stare into the ruggedly handsome face, the eyes alight with a vast intelligence and that eerie, unearthly power. He's beautiful, so haunted with power it takes me a second to realize exactly what position Nolan Storm has put me in, and by extension, my family.

~ L.e. Sterling

When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow.

~ P. H. Solomon

I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain.

~ Brent Weeks

When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow. From The Bow of Destiny

~ P. H. Solomon

Words,' he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

~ Road Dahl

The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast.

~ Julia Golding

All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not wither.Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out.

~ Derek Landy

..There were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.

~ R.a. Salvatore

He places a hand on either side of the bar, locking me in. 'And why won't you admit it?' he asks. I'm so startled by his new, gentler tone that I hazard a glance. My breath catches in my throat. Jared's eyes have changed to that sumptuous green, huge and mesmerizing, the pupils dilating like a cat's. I can't see to look away as he inches forward, until he's standing all but a hair's breadth away from me.

~ L.e. Sterling

That's one huge puppy.

~ Ksenia Anske

Frown deepening, Jared bounces a hand off the chair arm. 'You know you're different, Princess. And it's not just because you're some fancy, spoiled rich girl. Hell, you don't smell like anyone else. Money can't buy that smell.' I assume he wasn't talking about my expensive perfume, which money did in fact buy.

~ L.e. Sterling

The anvil is hard so that it can help shape the blade. If life were easy, we would all be soft and misshapen shards of metal, tossed into a bin.

~ J.m. Bush

Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

~ Ross Turner

The seed of the gift may come, but a seedling that isn't nourished dies quickly.

~ Mary E. Pearson

It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place, that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.

~ Stephen King