Fantasy Quotes
Norton Juster
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
2024 Orrin Woodward
The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.
1944 Svetlana Alexievich
Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl-there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.
3490 Karen Azinger
Seek Knowledge, Protect Knowledge, Share Knowledge.
3901 Karen Azinger
Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate.
2149 Nora Roberts
Anything worth anything can be found in books.
4805 Kyra Dune
I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.
2608 Evan Meekins
War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.
1165 Evan Meekins
Before I fix the world, I have to fix myself.
3985 Becca Fitzpatrick
I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you.
1192 Dr. Seuss
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
3309 Terry Pratchett
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
3589 Lloyd Alexander
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
2889 Neil Gaiman
The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.
4061 Stephen King
Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
3252 Leah Raeder
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.
4898 Laini Taylor
Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.
4725 P.C. Cast
Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.
4179 Veronica Rossi
In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.
3654 Priya Ardis
He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again.
I pictured smacking him in the face.
3568 Priya Ardis
Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.
4568 Kea Alwang
So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again.
4043 Heather Jensen
I wanted to apologize but what could I say? I’m sorry but I’m afraid my fangs might freak you out. Oh and by the way my eyes sort of glow in the dark when I get excited. I hope you’re cool with that.
2305 Rachel E. Carter
People make mistakes all the time –some of us just are in more of a position to leave an impact when we do.
2964 Rachel E. Carter
That somehow, this insufferable girl would become the one person I am forever, hopelessly, madly drawn to against my will and possibly even my better judgment.
2973 Rachel E. Carter
You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.
1043 Rachel E. Carter
Three. I had just made my first, second, and third kill. Before I had even obtained my mage’s robes. I bent over and vomited into the grass. There was no pride, no justice, just the appalling sense that I had lost my innocence. That I was a monster.
1867 Rachel E. Carter
He was a prince. There was no hope in saying yes to the boy with the garnet eyes who left me reckless and confused at every turn. There was no future with him. None. Darren had duty. To the Crown. Gods only knew Priscilla and Blayne had spent enough time reminding me of that.
2100 Rachel E. Carter
Someday, Ry, you are going to realize who Darren really is. He’s a prince, and he’s only going to break your heart.
3616 Rachel E. Carter
We couldn’t be friends. We couldn’t be enemies.
So what were we?
3526 Rachel E. Carter
Anything for Byron’s least favorite apprentice. It’s the least I can do since you took over my torch.
3128 Rachel E. Carter
Love Darren? Of course not. Love is for fools not smart enough to see the path in front of them. That’s the difference between you and I, Ryiah. I see the truth and accept Darren for what he is. You just see what you want to see. It’s why I will wear the crown and bear his children while you are left wondering why you were never good enough.
2214 Rachel E. Carter
I’m not like you. I’ve never cared about keeping relationships or sparing people’s feelings. All I’ve ever cared about is power: how to get it, and how to keep it. I told you as much when we met.
1592 Priya Ardis
Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I ate him up and didn’t let go until I had to come up for air.
3296 Rachel E. Carter
So how did you do it? What makes the cold-hearted princeling mortal like the rest of us?
4897 Lani Wendt Young
Excuse me? You're the one who was out to mislead me with your alluring bimbo slinkiness! What if I had believed your act last night? What if I had fallen deeply and madly in love with you? You would have had the blood of my love-sickness on your hands, Leila Folger.
1281 Elizabeth Englewood
Now if only I could spread the love between you two like I can spread this butter.
2966 Susan Ee
He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.
2792 Jefferson Smith
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.
3698 China Miéville
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
4628 Diane Duane
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
3033 Patrick Rothfuss
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
2024 David Farland
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.
3962 Julio Cortázar
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.
2880 L.M. Montgomery
Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
3110 Raymond E. Feist
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.
1138 Charles Baudelaire
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
3217 Alberto Manguel
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.
4460 Marie Brennan
Matriarchy is a time-honored staple for any writer looking to invent an exotic society.
4773 Yahtzee Croshaw
There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting-not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.
4291 Charles Nodier
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.
3501 Brian A. McBride
From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.
4548 Ivan Stoikov
Even in the hottest fire there's a bit of water. my The Opposite Of Magic.
1006 Ivan Stoikov
One can fight money only with money! from my Tale Of The Rock Pieces.
2012 Jefferson Smith
You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.
4495 Jefferson Smith
Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?
2917 Jefferson Smith
She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.
1394 Aaron D'Este
Rotten, dirty, back-slapping, wine-quaffing, haemorrhoid-hosting, goat-shagging, fart-sniffing, Crispin-loving, gold-snatching bastards!!!
3516 Erica Sehyun Song
The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.
3498 Destinee Hardwick
I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.
1184 Richelle E. Goodrich
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
2769 Alessandra Torre
The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.
4206 Mike Dickenson
Death is but a dream and life is merely the daydream of death.
1280 Laini Taylor
She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.
1887 Libba Bray
Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
3375 Laini Taylor
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve - like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
2124 Suzanne Collins
His dad said even the cavemen had geniuses among them. Somebody had thought up the wheel.
1060 Brent Weeks
Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
2651 M.G. Wells
Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless
1905 Priya Ardis
Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?
3516 Robert Fanney
Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make them real.
1362 Jim Butcher
Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness
begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you
3350 Patricia Briggs
He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.
3824 E.J. Stevens
Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.
2283 Gini Koch
I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet.
3356 Nikolas Lee
Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need.
2494 Cees Nooteboom
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending.
1044 William D. Burt
The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.
1572 Priya Ardis
Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?
3114 Andrea K. Höst
I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch
2205 Priya Ardis
If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.
3049 Priya Ardis
The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.
3572 Priya Ardis
The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.
2034 Nathalie M. Leblanc
You must try to have a positive attitude. It does not matter how small a person is. One can still change the future. Size is only a state of mind. You know – it is how you use your wits that counts. Nothing can stop us, if we put our hearts into it. Anything is achievable girls, anything at all!
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