Fantasy Quotes
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"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."
"When I was your age, television was called books."
"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
"She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you"with "May I take your order?"
"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
"Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
"Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free."
"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."
"Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'It was the perfect motto for Morganville."
"I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal."Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about.""Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year."
"When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it."
"Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions."
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."
"He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)"
"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."
"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it."
"I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."She raised an eyebrow."Sharp as hell,"Lightsong said, "but lacking a point."
"I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world."
"Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life"
"I feel ill,"[Howl] announced. "I'm going to bed, where I may die."
"Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle."
"Hoping to win the lottery to escape your existence is like waiting on a unicorn to give you a ride out of town. If you’re interested, I’m selling saddles."
"Why is he scared of the dark?"I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. "Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is"."
"Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them."
"The treacherous are ever distrustful."
"Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of war,The voice of one who went before,But most of all the mirror's gaze,Which counts us out our numbered days."
"There are plastic bags with zippers on them. I've seen them in commercials,"Dragos said to her. He snapped his fingers, trying to remember the name. "You put food in them.""Ziploc bags?"she asked in a cautious voice.He pointed at her. "Yes. I want one."
"if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."
"...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail."
"It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive."
"May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave."
"There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on."
"I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves."
"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."
"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world."
"Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend."
"People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence."
"May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you..."
"Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd."
"Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!"
"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you."
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