Fantasy Quotes

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again! said Fili. My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.

~ H.b. Bolton

Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more. (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)

~ Stephen Noce

No–one believes they’re a hero. But that doesn’t mean they’re not heroic - Captain Spectre.

~ Kevin Outlaw

There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.

~ Kevin Outlaw

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sometimes even the smallest of efforts can change someone’s fate entirely.

~ Mitch Rowland

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

~ Sarah J. Pepper

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

~ Peter Atkins

You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.

~ Joshua Winning

Twill be the end of us all when it comes...The moon will devour the sun...The sea will rise in a great wave and drown the world...The Realms will fall...Evil will crawl across the land.

~ Sam J. Charlton

If it's to be, it's up to me.to which I add;If not now...then when?

~ Andrew Toynbee

Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.

~ Joe Derouen

Shawn slowly climbed the old wooden stairs, listening to the low creak that sounded from his footsteps. He hoped the wood wouldn’t collapse beneath him. But the stairs held strong and a moment later he joined his friend in the kitchen of the old house, a wave of suffocating humidity washing over them as they stepped deeper into its secrets.

~ Joe Derouen

What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true?

~ Rick Chiantaretto

I remembered what it was like to die-the pain, the fear, the doubt, and the unknown. Somehow I had cheated death once. Now I was about to try again.

~ Rick Chiantaretto

I didn't panic until my chest collapsed and I couldn't breathe. I gasped until I no longer had a throat to do it with. I didn't feel like I was holding my breath - it was more like I had no lungs.

~ Rick Chiantaretto

What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true.

~ Rick Chiantaretto

Where moments before the bright morning sun flickered through the branches of the huge oak trees surrounding the property, every-thing in a ten yard radius immediately went pitch dark. The air, already a chilly fifty degrees, dropped past freezing in an instant, and the pressure changed to the point where he thought his eardrums might burst.

~ Joe Derouen

The future will never bend to the fleeting hopes of the man.From Lucifer's Ladder: God of the Fallen, Book One

~ W.d. Frank

I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yellow acid spills from my lips in frothy discomposure. It splatters the pavement like a spray of blood.

~ Rebecca Clare Smith

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

~ Graham Joyce

I cannot breathe, or see, nor swim,My darkness is composed of him.

~ Nenia Campbell

Nonsense! I have merely come to terms with the fact that I am perfect, and I have decided life must go on, and I must learn to live with myself...

~ C.n. Faust

If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.

~ Charles Gilman

They’ve made her something else now.

~ Damien Angelica Walters

As McMasters raised the shotgun, the man removed his glasses. There were fields of stars where his eyes should have been. But they weren’t reflections of the night sky. These stars were a glimpse of a dim and distant future where the very laws of physics had been reduced to relics of a forgotten age. Feeble as dying embers, they were the palsied mourners at time’s wake.McMasters could hear the ultimate silence and feel the biting cold of the one true void. The promise of the eternal nothing beckoned to him. There was a sort of peace in the death it represented, not the death of mind and body but of shape and form. It was the final revelation, the casting off of life’s illusion in favor of the void’s embrace. from Riders of the Necronomicon

~ James Pratt

And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he'll be pounding and... will there be blood? I like to imagine so. Yes, I rather think there will be blood. Lots of blood. Blood in extraordinary quantities.

~ Alan Moore

I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased.

~ Keisha Keenleyside

Evil does not listen to reason.

~ Grady P. Brown

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

~ J.g. Ballard

The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my destiny, of that I had no doubt whatsoever; a fate that threatened to wipe the blush off my face and turn me into the man my father always wanted me to be... Veronica Somerset, Dragonfly.

~ Charles A. Cornell

What we've done is make the categories of science fiction and fantasy larger, freer, and more inclusive than any other genre of contemporary literature. We have room for everybody, and we are extraordinarily open to genuine experimentation.

~ Orson Scott Card

...You believe that the kind of story you want to tell might be best received by the science fiction and fantasy audience. I hope you're right, because in many ways this is the best audience in the world to write for. They're open-minded and intelligent. They want to think as well as feel, understand as well as dream. Above all, they want to be led into places that no one has ever visited before. It's a privilege to tell stories to these readers, and an honour when they applaud the tale you tell.

~ Orson Scott Card

Unfettered is an anthology filled with magic, wonderment, and hope. It is more than it's combined stories, though. It is the power of friendship. Of giving. Of a science-fiction and fantasy community that protects its own. Of humanity escaping the ugliness that often plagues it to instead create a testament to the goodness found in every heart.

~ Shawn Speakman

Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.

~ Rod Serling

If there’s a zeppelin, it’s alternate history. If there’s a rocketship, it’s science fiction. If there are swords and/or horses, it’s fantasy. A book with swords and horses in it can be turned into science fiction by adding a rocketship to the mix. If a book has a rocketship in it, the only thing that can turn it back into fantasy is the Holy Grail.

~ Debra Doyle

What is it in humans that makes us so eager to believe ill of one another? ... What makes us so hungry for it? Failed idealism, he suspected. We disappoint ourselves and then look around for other failures to convince ourselves: it's not just me. (15)

~ Mary Doria Russell

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The sands of time blew into a storm of images... Images in sequence to tell the truth! Glorious legends of revolutionaries, bound only by a desire to be true to themselves... And to hope! Parables of colliding worlds, of forbidden love... of enemies healing the wounds of circumstance! Projected myth of persecution through greed and selfishness... And the will to survive! The Will to survive! And to survive in the face of those who claim credit for your very existence! We survive not as pawns, but as agents of hope... Sometimes misunderstood, but always true to our story. The story of man.

~ Scott Morse