Couve > Couve's Quotes

“There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?”
― Jim Starlin

“Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.”
― Jason Ellis

“One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”
― Bill Willingham

“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.”
― George R.R. Martin

“There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

“But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain:

The Lake of Fire awaits my lady”
― alexandra adornetto, Halo

“there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

“Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”
—Zarost”
― Greg Hamerton, The Riddler's Gift

“Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

“With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.”
― Carlyle Labuschagne, The Broken Destiny

“You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.”
― Jim Butcher, Ghost Story

“The best I can say, it's like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell ... It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's all there is.

A woman's a different thing entirely. Who knows where a woman begins and ends? Listen mistress, I have roots, I have roots deeper than this island. Deeper than the sea, older than the raising of the lands. I go back into the dark ... I go back into the dark! Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon. Who dares ask questions of the dark? Who'll ask the dark its name?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Tehanu

“All stories are ultimately about the fall.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve.”
― Robert Jordan

“Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre

“Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble.”
― Karsten Knight, Wildefire

“But why?" Vimbai whispered, overwhelmed with the weight of accumulated disbelief. "What is happening to us?"

"Who knows?" Maya shrugged. "Who cares? Enjoy it while you can, why don't you? There will be tons of boring shit in your life, okay? I promise.”
― Ekaterina Sedia

“Go and you will see that nothing is as wonderful as our dreams can make it”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

“How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”—Zarost”
― Greg Hamerton, Second Sight

“I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent.”
― Carolyn Turgeon, Mermaid

“I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person”
― John C. Wright, Fugitives of Chaos

“A weapon needs a wielder; it should not be permitted to start its own fights."

"You are not my wielder; you are naught, a forgotten ghost, not even a memory."

"Maybe, but you are still a weapon.”
― Angelo Tsanatelis, The Rootless

“She gazed down at the sleeping boy at her feet. Alex had died for his prince. If necessary, she would do no less.”
― Erin Beaty, The Traitor's Ruin

“People generally forget the things they are ashamed of, but no one ever forgets an insult.”
― Lina J. Potter, Palace Intrigue