Fantasy Quotes

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people gettin...

Err on the side of awesome.

Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid groundi...

Eternity ended ten years ago.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose ...

A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known.

It is not the destination that matters, but how one arrives there.

I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."She raised an eyebrow."Sh...

The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean ou...

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good," but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so m...

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird,...

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s...

The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich signific...

Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imp...

I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were...

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one ...

I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. It has of course - or I intended it to have - a mo...

this is a book about something

As he rose to his feet he noticed that he was neither dripping nor panting for breath as anyone woul...

Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and ...

I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are...

Reunion with the mother is a siren call haunting our imagination. Once there was bliss, and now ther...

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate im...

Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astounding universe, and it is sad to see so m...

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys...

I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

It's entirely possible that there are memories you have buried or repressed, memories formed when yo...

To love is to destroy and to be loved is to be the one destroyed

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of ...

Aren't we forever?

Beauty is harsh.

Your pretense does not fool me, gnome. My eye will be upon you.

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pr...

He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and ye...

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising,...

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one...

The real difference is that with fantasy—and by that I mean fantasy which can simultaneously tap int...

There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ...

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true....

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that y...

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're...

I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean som...

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No Y...

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try an...

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or un...

Let'sss just kill him," said the shorter Ra'zac. "He has caused us much grief." The taller one ran h...

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what...

Leave the dead to the Earth. They are not for us.

Come, kiss me sweet, and then let us return to bed, for I am tired, and I would sleep.

Shall we dance,friend of my heart?"We shall, little one.

reading is awsome

Into the sky to win or die.

I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't ...

Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was ...

That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's becaus...

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important...

There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these a...

Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of ...

When we are no longer children we are already dead

Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, d...

Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: tha...

While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writ...

While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writ...

The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled...

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

What is your name?"Why?"So I can mark your grave...

A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant

...Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, tho...

When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet...

Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. "Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?

Nothing is safe from you. If I were to court a girl who lived on an iceberg in the middle of the oce...

I feel ill," [Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die.

I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desper...

He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levere...

...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

Horses are of a breed unique to Fantasyland. They are capable of galloping full-tilt all day without...

Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In t...

Female Mercenary. This will be a companion on your Tour. She is usually tall, thin and wiry, silent,...

Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing...

Before long, everyone was giving him answers, and feeling a little superior, because it was really r...

OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is sto...

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a wa...

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a wa...

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of ...

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they mus...

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for fa...

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze o...

But it is cute. It's such a boy thing to do.Drop dead.Aw, you say the most romantic things.

Without thinking about it at all, Harry stepped in front of Hermione.There was an intake of breath f...

And then Harry Potter had launched in to a speech that was inspiring, yet vague. A speech to the eff...

Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Bu...

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard ...

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...