Fantasy Quotes - Page 13

• All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

  Robertson Davies

  Children, Real, Serious

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

  Terri Windling

  Real, Thinking, Fire

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• If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.

  Mindy Kaling

  Revenge, Exercise, Long

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.203, Three Rivers Press

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• What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, Space, Maps

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• But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dream, Rainbow, Forever

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• It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.

  Mitch Albom

  Mind, Together

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• Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Labyrinth, Essentials, Fabric

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• ... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Horror, Written, Budgets

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• Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Country, Art

  "Everville". Book by Clive Barker, www.e-reading.club. 1994.

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• You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Girl, Children, Pride

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• Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

  Brandon Mull

  Imagination

  FaceBook post by Brandon Mull from Feb 26, 2013

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• What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

  Salman Rushdie

  Lust, Heat, Grows

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.231, Random House

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• A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours the fantasy. There are too many possibilities. The house he once wished for with all his heart is suddenly too small. The travel, too cheap. He wanted to visit an island. Now he contemplates buying one.

  Holly Black

  Heart, Men, Islands

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom

  Lin Yutang

  Dream, Heart, Animal

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Confused, Real

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• In his fantasy, he kissed his best friend again, pulled back, and… “I love you,” he said into the spray of the shower. “I… love you.” As he closed his eyes against the pain, it was hard to know how much of what ran down his cheeks was water, and how much was something else.

  J.R. Ward

  Pain, Love You, Eye

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.207, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think Ben is right, that the fantasy world is better because reality sucks...but then I look at Nikki and I believe that we can beat the odds.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed.

  Maya Banks

  Kissing, Broken, Kind

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• There he is, a woman's living, breathing fantasy, doing his slow, cocky turn, spiky black hair, darkly tanned chest, dimpled smile-killer smile-all in the package of Remington Tate. He's perfection itself, and a new surge of hormones sweeps through me as I do what the rest of the crowd does and take in his visual, so blatantly on display in those low riding boxing shorts and so strikingly sexy, he becomes the center of my attention. The center. Of my. World.

  Katy Evans

  Sexy, Cocky, Breathing

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• We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

  Iris Murdoch

  Judging, World, Sometimes

  Iris Murdoch (2002). “Nuns and Soldiers”, p.490, Penguin

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• Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

  Joe Hill

  Reality, Waiting

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being countless other potential selves.. Yet once being born there is no turning back. And I think that's exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Mean, Thinking, Self

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• ... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.

  Joe Hill

  Real, Imagination, People

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Writing, Historical Novels, Imaginary

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