Fantasy Quotes

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...

Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar d...

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

At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, show...

Blood trickled down his chin as he was hauled up onto his knees, the golden rope securing his arms b...

I’m not going,” he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer an...

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin...

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. U...

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But ...

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futu...

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Trust the Oak,” said she; “trust the Oak, and the Elm, and the great Beech. Take care of the Birch, ...

He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless,because he wanted to go to bed with her an...

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as...

Shall I prick my prick as well?

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I’d sooner go to Middle Earth.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, ...

They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the...

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

Look at me!" he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm's End. "Look at me, I'm a ...

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream....

...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the p...

Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie...

The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to f...

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We a...

Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. ...

Something warned me that what I might see would haunt me forever.

He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom bu...

Is it...can we...is it safe?" Tub checked the lot but he seemed unconcerned. "Coach Lawrence nabbed ...

I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or a...

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger tha...

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the ev...

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none th...

A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present;...

Well did the traveler know those garden lands that lie betwixt the wood of the Cerenerian Sea, and b...

Down through this verdant land Carter walked at evening, and saw twilight float up from the river to...

By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear th...

Freud wrote that love involves the undervaluation of reality and the overvaluation of the desired ob...

Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after ...

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wak...

What he'd find there, of course, was up to Pete. But he was sure there were magicians in Tampico and...

With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas,We sailed for the Hesperides,The land where golden apples grow...

Thus Arthur achieved the adventure of the sword that day and entered into his birthright of royalty....

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had be...

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

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying t...

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve

As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.

Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home i...

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...

Harry―yer a wizard.

You can't just pick up a gun and become a gunfighter, or go off and explore for a new world, or pull...

I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler. -Frodo Baggins

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disappr...

But have a care! It is a bitter blade, and steel serves only those that can wield it. It will cut yo...

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consi...

The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air.

Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!

All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not ...

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does no...

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not ...

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old...

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

Fly, you fools!' he cried, and was gone.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples ...

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

Roads go ever ever on,Over rock and under tree,By caves where never sun has shone,By streams that ne...

His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than ...

I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have...

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shield...

How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are so...

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

But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, ...

Then Maeglin bowed low and took Turgon for lord and king, to do all his will; but thereafter he stoo...

There came a time near dawn on the eve of spring, and Luthien danced upon a green hill; and suddenly...

Now fair and marvellous was that vessel made, and it was filled with a wavering flame, pure and brig...

Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it ...

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible ...

Therefore Morgoth came, climbing slowly from his subterranean throne, and the rumour of his feet was...

What would you here, unhappy mortal, and for what cause have you left your own land to enter this, w...

I fear I am beyond your comprehension. - Gandalf the White

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Although now long estranged,Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.Dis-graced he may be, yet is n...

Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, ...

The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that woul...

I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a...

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders sho...

Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthrough whom is splintered from a single Whiteto many hues, and...

Not long ago-incredible though it may seem-I heard a clerk of Oxford declare that he 'welcomed' the ...

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.

Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.