Fantasy Books Quotes

“The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real ... for a moment at least ... that long magic moment before we wake.

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. Reality is the strip malls of Burbank, the smokestacks of Cleveland, a parking garage in Newark. Fantasy is the towers of Minas Tirith, the ancient stones of Gormenghast, the halls of Camelot. Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest Airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang. There is something old and true in fantasy that speaks to something deep within us, to the child who dreamt that one day he would hunt the forests of the night, and feast beneath the hollow hills, and find a love to last forever somewhere south of Oz and north of Shangri-La.

They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to middle Earth.”
― George R.R. Martin

“If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. 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.”
― Patrick Rothfuss

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

“Power lay in her hand. Death gripped her by the other.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“They all had stories. They had mothers or fathers, sisters or lovers. They weren't alone in the world, mattering to no one but themselves. It seemed utterly wrong to treat them like pennies in a purse. I felt the soldiers understood perfectly well that we were making sums out of them-- this many safe to spend, this number too high, as if each one wasn't a whole man.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice, and tried not to be offended. Key word: tried.”
― Gena Showalter, The Darkest Secret

“If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.”
—Zarost”
― Greg Hamerton, Second Sight

“They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

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

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

“He was aware that darkness could take root in pristine gardens, and even good men could fall to shadow.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry”
― Denise Verrico

“Ketika kau memiliki firasat buruk tentang kehilangan orang yang paling berharga, kau akan mencoba untuk tidak mempercayainya. Tetapi jika kelak firasat itu semakin nyata, kau akan melakukan apa pun untuk menjaga orang yang paling berharga itu. Sekalipun akhirnya kau tetap kehilangannya!”
― K.A.Z_Violin, Eldar: Violin & Negeri Salju Abadi

“War was a terrible, fickle thing–an eternal, horrendous nightmare for those who lived it, and a thing easily forgotten by those who didn’t.”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

“People that are lazy don't get anything accomplished. It's People like me that are reliable.”
― Richard W. Todd

“I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination."
D'Molay the Freeman Tracker”
― M.Scott Verne, City of the Gods: Forgotten

“A volte l’invisibile si manifesta solo agli occhi di chi è accecato dalla paura. Tu abbi fede e non sbaglierai.”
― Z. D’Aleo, L’Amuleto

“I am apprenticed to a goddess. Time to act like it.”
― K.V. Wilson, To Speak with the Stars

“Thyme would handle it. They always did and they always would. And they would complain about it.
"You bet I will, Starling.”
― K.V. Wilson, To Speak with the Stars

“Tell me, false king, does the new moon make your heart beat as the old did?”
― Allie Nguyen, Blood of Silver

“She’d loved him with the kind of love young girls have for their childhood heroes. Except Ba was anything but heroic, and Mum didn’t stay young forever.”
― Allie Nguyen, Blood of Silver

“Everybody wants to be a legend. Most people end up as set dressing.”
― A. Lee Martinez, Helen & Troy's Epic Road Quest

“Dopo tutto, il cambiamento è l'essenza di una storia”
― Erin Morgenstern, Il mare senza stelle

“Ljudet av död. Straffet för den som sviker.”
― Emma Andersson, Mardrömmar

“Hans fader - mästare på att bryta löften”
― Irma Voss, Skuggornas epos

“Som om detta folk, som redan lider av svält och fattigdom, skulle vilja dras in i ett åratal långt krig mellan flera länder.”
― Irma Voss, Skuggornas epos

“Hjärtat fastnade i halsgropen när soldaterna tågade runt på tomten i sökande efter oskyldiga medborgare som hade lyckats hitta ett gömställe.”
― Irma Voss, Skuggornas epos

“You’re perfect," he assured her.
"You're not just saying that because you found out I'm a princess, are you?”
― K.V. Wilson, To Speak with the Stars

“I still hope that something within these broken souls will ignite, so they will say, 'Maybe it’s time to do something about the current situation. Maybe, if we don’t rise up, we’ll end up where he is...”
― Rainer Meri, Inferno's Silence

“What is right may change with the teller. But wrong is nonetheless wrong.”
― Lili K. Buckley, Gates of Thiros