100 Quotes About Fantasy Fiction

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Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop...
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Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.”– Zarost Greg Hamerton
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Love is when you’d rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again. Bryan Butvidas
I am the shadow of the flame.
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I am the shadow of the flame. Victoria Aveyard
Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds...
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Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim. Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope. Ross Turner
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in...
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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
I did not know what the future would bring, but...
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I did not know what the future would bring, but I knew that life is not merely about knowledge. It is about the courage and trust that we place in our stories. Erin Forbes
If you see the dragon fly, best you drink the...
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If you see the dragon fly, best you drink the flagon dry.”– Zarost Greg Hamerton
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Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if everything so far had not happened, time would still have managed to find a way to make all this happen. Erica Sehyun Song
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I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things than usual, and I knew that I really could accomplish anything and everything. But sometimes, all a fifteen-year-old girl wants is to stop growing. She wants time to slow down and eventually stand still where she can be young and inexperienced forever. Sometimes, she simply wants to remain a child. Erica Sehyun Song
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And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadness and anger we felt, in the end, everything was going to be fine. But I did not know when the end was, or if it was even near. But that did not matter. I preferred to look towards it in anticipation rather than worry about it. One new day equalled to one new adventure. And right now, I still had plenty of days left in my life. So I did not decide to sit down and plan out my life. Instead, I decided to sit back, relax, and see where life would take me. . Erica Sehyun Song
Knowing all the languages in the world could help you...
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Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hear... from my future Kids' Funny Business. Ivan Stoikov
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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
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I think you’ve forgotten that this place holds a lot more than justbetraying Hobgoblins. Call upon the spirits, summon fairies, raise thedead! My brother, you have the power to do so--now get off of your buttand use it! Richard P. Denney
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Standing in front of the white picket fence, I stared at the multitude of champagne roses weaving their hunter green vines gracefully through and around the fence. Soft hints of pink hues whispered from the centers of the blooms. Their petals covered the lush ground and rolled in a lazy dance with the warm summer breeze... Leah Lozano
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Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they always have a shoulder for us to cry on or relieve stress. They take our minds away from the real world by telling us captivating stories. When we look back at our choice of books, we can nostalgically recall our younger years. Erica Sehyun Song
They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had...
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They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had grown to recognize as two very dangerous things. Erin Forbes
Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand.
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Speak peace unto the world and good souls will stand. L.T. Hill
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There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it was: friendship had happened to both of them, on the sudden, completely aside from Tristan's both endangering and saving Crissand's life. It was no reason related to that, it was no reason that either of them quite knew. Crissand had simply risen on his horizon like the sun of his banner..and that was that.. They were together, and there was a great deal right with the day simply in that. . C.J. Cherryh
She hoped Alistair would prove to be more than she...
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She hoped Alistair would prove to be more than she imagined. But, unfortunately, she knew without a shadow of a doubt that people weren’t what they once were. Ross Turner
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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? . Unknown
Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary.
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Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary. Erin Forbes
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Creating is like the oxygen in my air. Syd Murray
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What she really felt like doing was reading. Escaping into the Enchanted Wood, up the Faraway Tree, or with the Famous Five into Smuggler's Top. Kate Morton
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.. the reader is probably wondering that if Tolkien did indeed fashion two of his heroic characters from Catholic prophecies, what about the evil protagonists? Were any of them inspired by these little-known revelations concerning future times? The answer is yes, but to discover the links between the myth and the prophecies, we must venture not only into the realm of unnerving revelations, but also into the murky world of secret sects, dark plots, occult signs, bloody revolutions and conspiracy theories ~ we must probe deep into the burning Eye of Sauron. E.a. Bucchianeri
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How can you understand the language of music, if you will not be an instrument?”– Zarost Greg Hamerton
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We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible — it can never be broken. The thread is the key item that links us together. We understand each other. Erica Sehyun Song
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You are blessed with a knack for sucking the wonder out of the extraordinary. Daniel McHugh
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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
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The king is dead. Long live the queen. Marie Lu
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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
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We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do not find Drakes’ path, or even an additional, we should come back straight along, look yourself upward an additional way to obtain foods, and then do a similar for the next water for the south. Chayada Welljaipet
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People can always say I don't look impressive enough, but they can't argue over how strong I am once I punch them in the face. F.C. Yee
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Even the broken will fight D.P.Prior
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I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the perfect reflection before composing itself. The ripple then rushed towards a mass of rocks to one side. Erica Sehyun Song
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She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real. Erica Sehyun Song
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As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamplight. Even now when I was nearly asleep, I could recognise her. Her shoulders were hunched up as if she was upset. Whether she was upset that she had nearly killed me or that she had let me get away, I was unsure. Then she turned around and walked to join the other silhouettes standing in a group farther back. Now I could not see which one was Rose — they were all joint together to make one. Erica Sehyun Song
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The four of us stood in silence as we watched the surrounding girls play games or gossip. It was almost as if I did not belong here anymore. It was like I was peering in through a window from a completely different world. Erica Sehyun Song
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We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories. Erica Sehyun Song
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She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful smile. She reached out with her small hand, and I gripped her tiny fingers as I let go of the pain and sank deeper into the lake. Erica Sehyun Song
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I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cascade of silver bubbles dancing up to the surface. Erica Sehyun Song
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Without the journey and crucial moment of understanding, I would still be questioning everything before me. I know now that I must trust what comes next, for there is a plan greater than the one I can see at work. Brynn Myers
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The horrifying sound of breaking glass, and a thunderous tirade of splintering pieces hitting the floor, stunned them all. Tobin spun around in shock. The massive Travelling Mirror, through which Tobin and Murphy had so recently arrived, shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces, cascading down the wall, and onto the floor in an enormous pile of jagged edges. The hall was still as everyone stared at the shattered mirror in shocked silence. “Oh dear. Oh dear, dear, dear, ” whispered Elbert. R.S. MollisonRead
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Shaking his head, Tobin turned back to his picnic spread, and there, sitting on the end of the checkered cloth, and helping himself to one of Tobin’s cupcakes, was a tiny brown squirrel. Tobin blinked in surprise. The squirrel was exceptionally bold. He made absolutely no move to leave, despite Tobin’s frown, and merely stuffed more pink icing into his mouth with one tiny paw. His ears were tufted into small points, and he tilted his head to the side as he surveyed Tobin with bright, inquisitive eyes. Tobin had to laugh. “Well, I suppose I don’t mind sharing with you, little guy, even if you did eat one of my cupcakes, ” Tobin chuckled to himself.“ I should hope so. Frankly, I’m surprised that you thought you could even eat five cupcakes all by yourself, ” the squirrel replied airily. R.S. MollisonRead
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Maven Gustav, what is that awful noise?” Tobin bellowed, holding his hands over his ears.“ Why, it’s my very own creation! ” Gustav replied, beaming with pride. “I made this spell to be activated in the event of a castle emergency. In all my tests, it never failed to wake everyone, ” he noted, proudly.“ Yes, Gustav. It’s fantastically loud. Well done. But what is the emergency, and how do we turn the alarm off? . R.S. MollisonRead
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The blue foam spread quickly, and had almost entirely enveloped the room, moving rapidly towards the last clear door, when suddenly the door burst open, and Simon, looking flushed, and panting heavily, stepped into the room.“ Nooooooo! ” shrieked Maven Ellie; a shocking sound out of the usually calm and cheerful magician. But it was too late. The foam, already covering most of the room, seemed to stiffen for a moment, before a molten red glow began to take over. The foam hissed, as though in anger, and at an alarmingly fast rate, it raced towards Simon, who had frozen obligingly, the moment Maven Ellie had screamed. A look of terror crept over his face at the sight of the crimson foam racing towards him. Desperately, he tried to move away, but the foam had already reached his feet, and he was stuck fast. Maven Thom, in a rather stunning display of athleticism for a man of his age, made a running leap for the small space that remained between Simon and the door, just barely clearing the approaching foam. The foam continued to climb up Simon’s legs and chest, covering his neck and face in seconds, until he was completely encased in the hardened foam. R.S. MollisonRead
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If the future was bared before you, would it still be yours? If the past could chase you, would you run from it? If the world crumbled tonight, would you carve your own? Nicholas Rinth
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Rincewind sighed, and padded around the base of the tower toward the Library.Towards where the Library had been. There was the arch of the doorway, and most of the walls were still standing, but a lot of the roof had fallen in and everything was blackened by soot. Rincewind stood and stared for a long time. Then he dropped the carpet and ran, stumbling and sliding through the rubble that half-blocked the doorway. The stones were still warm underfoot. Here and there the wreckage of bookcase still smouldered. Anyone watching would have seen Rincewind dart backward and forward across the shimmering heaps, scrabbling desperately among them, throwing aside charred furniture, pulling aside lumps of fallen roof with less than superhuman strength. They would have seen him pause once or twice to get his breath back, then dive in again, cutting his hands on shards of half molten glass from the dome of the roof. They would have noticed that he seemed to be sobbing. Eventually his questing fingers touched something warm and soft. The frantic wizard heaved a charred roof beam aside, scrabbled through a drift of fallen tiles and peered down. There, half squashed by the beam and baked brown by the fire, was a large bunch of overripe, squashy bananas. He picked one up, very carefully, and sat and watched it for some time until the end fell off. Then he ate it. Terry Pratchett
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Wake early, take more! Julie Elise Landry
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Then perhaps you don’t need it. I think the scar gives you character, even if it does mar those pretty tattoos. Would make for great tavern stories if you didn’t cover it.” Neferre laughed flatly and stuck her hands in her pockets. “There’s nothing great about getting mugged, Ziro.” Ziro laughed, her deep voice jiggling her second chin. “Oh, aye. But no one said you had to tell the truth now, did they? . Ash Gray
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Return me safely to my home, ” the princess said, “and I shall reward you with your weight in eggs.” Olorun snorted derisively. “You’re joking, right?” The woman’s eyes flitted in embarrassment. “Now wait a minute, ” said Helianthus. “We’re talkin’ eggs here. What sort of eggs? Ostrich eggs?” Neferre made an impatient noise. “Hel! She doesn’t have any eggs! Unless they’re hidden in a very. delicate place.” Neferre grinned at the princess. “Tell me your eggs are hidden where I think they’re hidden. Ash Gray
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Kimaria smirked and placed her hands behind her back. “Come now. It doesn’t have to come to that. Violence is so beneath us.” “No, it isn’t, ” said Helianthus at once.“ Well . . it is beneath me, ” the high queen said and touched a hand to her chest. “Unlike you, I am civilized. I wear shoes and I have a last name.” They watched as she eased into a chair. She crossed one leg over the other, folded her arms, and regarded them calmly. “Aren’t you the least bit curious as to how I snatched the famed Nineveh Atvaris from our dark past? You can’t be that boring. . Ash Gray
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Verne frowned. “Calm down. Don’t exert yourself in your condition.” Salen looked at Verne in amazement. “Don’t exert --! My dear woman, we are all about to die! I don’t think it damn well matters if I shit my pants at this point -- Ash Gray
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Helianthus snorted. “Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But .. . I think he missed you. Ash Gray
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My child will bear those scars forever, ” Tilv said angrily. “ And if he isn’t a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them, ” Neferre returned calmly. Ash Gray
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Neferre swallowed hard. “The elder used to tell stories of dark places in dark times, ” she said, picking the needle through with black nails, “when the winters were endless and the sun fell cold across the land. When beasts far worse than the crags prowled the shadows. And there were no humans. Only elvkarin and the night. We knew the bitter sting of winter’s breath and it never ended as it ends now. We called it Isaria on Evile. A Time of Darkness. Ash Gray
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Why does everything want to eat children?! ” Neferre smiled. “Because you taste like candy. Stinky socks would mask your delicious scent from the aziza. We must get you stinky socks. So they do not eat you.”“ That’s not much of a bedtime story! You really haven’t done this before! Ash Gray
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It is a very difficult thing, to love another. To some it comes easily, naturally even. Whilst for others, the road to such things is long and arduous and fraught with danger. Ross Turner
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:The way to the Seaglass Stair will be long and arduous. There will be those who wish to stop you. They will kill you to keep you from succeeding.: : Why? That’s insane.: : As if insanity were some fabrication, some dark tale Hemfra told you one night when you were a child and refused to sleep. There will always be resistance to anything and everything, defying all logic, all natural sense of self-preservation. There will be those who wish for you to simply let the world fade away. It is the way of humans to be illogical for the sake of personal conviction and made up nonsense.: . Ash Gray
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Wells is teaching us to think. Burroughs and his lesser imitators are teaching us not to think. Of course, Burroughs is teaching us to wonder. The sense of wonder is in essence a religious state, blanketing out criticism. Wells was always a critic, even in his most wondrous and romantic tales. And there, I believe, the two poles of modern fantasy stand defined. At one pole wait Wells and his honorable predecessors such as Swift; at the other, Burroughs and the commercial producers, such as Otis Adelbart Kline, and the weirdies, and horror merchants such as H.P. Lovecraft, and so all the way past Tolkien to today's non-stop fantasy worlders. Mary Shelley stands somewhere at the equator of this metaphor. Brian W. Aldiss
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The raven — Asker — immediately cawed. It sounded suspiciously like laughter. “Not... be afraid of Asker.” The raven’s button eyes gleamed. “He only eats worms… you are not worm. Tim Reed
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He stood taller, and straighter, and broader, and infinitely more human than anything else Marcii could possibly imagine. Ross Turner
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He was like nothing she’d ever known. Marcii hoped she would come to know him, for he was all she could ever have asked for and more. Ross Turner
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And yet the night was still fresh: young as new dawn. There was still time for worlds to change, if that was to be their fate. Ross Turner
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She has no interest in human quarrels, for they are often petty and always pointless. Ross Turner
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If this was what it meant to be human, for now she saw more clearly than she ever had done, she didn’t want to be. Ross Turner
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You don’t approve?” Joan asked, picking up on Delphine’s tone. “Their stories were for themselves, not the Mirrors.”“What do you mean?” said Bea.“Certainly sometimes a good little character would find a lamp, and would not be so corrupted by the strangely endless possibilities of three wishes that they ended up causing more harm than they ever imagined. Those stories fostered belief, they were retold, certainly; but they were few and far between. Most of the genie’s tales showed the characters exactly who they really were, not when they were despised and degraded, not when they’d reached the gutter and been given licence to look at the stars. No, the genies showed them who they were when they were invincible. The characters, they try to forget stories like that. F.D. Lee
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How can we learn the value of saying no, if we didn’t occasionally say yes? F.D. Lee
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Mistasinon stood as the music of life flowed around him, the instrument of his agency muted. F.D. Lee
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The woman above him had tumbled out of his dreams, and now stood like a half-waking ghost, a photograph double exposed, showing him in one moment the fallacy of his past as it bled into his future. The image of Maria Sophia had grown too large for him to bear. He had made it so. In his industry and creativity he had transformed her into something so wonderful that the very fact she might now be anything less terrified him almost as much as the prospect she might exceed it. . F.D. Lee
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This is what a castle sounded like when it died, and he knew he would never forget it. Steven Poore
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Here's a tragedy for you. Arca the Brave, one of the last heroes of Cape Magister, the man who held the line at the Usurper's Fields, who saw even the mighty Guhl fall and die... now he sleeps on my floor and begs for scraps like a dog. Perhaps there are some wars that are not worth fighting. Steven Poore
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Death drives desire. Rosemary A. Johns
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Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom Rosemary A. Johns
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Each day Marda gets closer. The sub circles coral reefs off the coasts, where mermaids are said to like the colors of the schools of fishes, and train them to swim around their necks like jewelry or live behind their ears, beneath their long hair. Sometimes mermaids like shallow places, but mostly they like the dark and the beautiful, uncharted, abandoned, soulless parts of the undiscovered world. Holly Walrath
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You know those vampire myths? Bollocks to them. Rosemary A. Johns
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…dancing in the carnage and the flames. Rosemary A. Johns
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Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom. Rosemary A. Johns
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You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf. Betsy Schow
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So an inerrant archer who's inaccurate." Hastra to Athson, from The Bow of Destiny P. H. Solomon
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The pieces of the puzzle are visible, but not the grand design. Images flicker and dance like memories, hinting at events to come. They scatter the moment I reach for them only to re-form to taunt me. I who never truly possessed them, nor may I ever. They do tell me this: a time of great change approaches and it’s not enough to watch. We must act. We can’t count on others to do our work for us or all may be lost.- Oracle Lilian’s Diary, Winter of 3765. Mara Amberly
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Hastra, you think you see, but you don't see this. You never have." Corgren, from The Bow of Destiny P. H. Solomon
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The Light shines brightest, when the world is at its darkest. Michael Lackey
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Justice lay on the edge o his blessed sword, but revenge - sweet as candy - filled his senses." The Bow of Destiny P. H. Solomon
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Names are for those who do not know themselves." Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny P. H. Solomon
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When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow. P. H. Solomon
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I'm afraid we were so eager to avoid war, we've made it all but certain. Brent Weeks
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When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow." From The Bow of Destiny P. H. Solomon
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All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost: The old that is strong does not wither. Deep roots are not reached by the frost. J.r.r. Tolkien
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Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality. Stewart Stafford
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Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen? Michael Moorcock
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The demon of revenge had already taken hold of his heart. The cancer of injustice had already eaten at his cheerful soul, leaving a skeleton of a carcass behind, one that could never feel compassion for humans–or anything else–again. Cameron Jace
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Then why are you still here?” I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.“ Masochism.”“ I don’t know what that means.”“ It means I like my own pain.”“ That doesn’t make sense.”“ I’m human. You think we ever make sense? Tessa Maurer
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There exists a microscopic breed of brain beetle, commonly known as an ‘idea’. An idea desires only one thing: To catch the perfect brain wave. Leah Broadby
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What’s not to love? I made friends with a pretty girl and now we get to plan a castle break in. This beats the day to day kill, eat and survive. Emilyann Girdner
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You know that when a utility company is going down the fantasy route, they are likely hiding some illegal activity that they are engaging in. Fabricating fictional stories to their government regulator is just one of the many illegal activities that they engage in. Steven Magee
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The best thing to do when someone is trying to argue with you is to repeatedly state "Stay Away" and video record the entire event. You may need that video for the police afterwords when the aggressor starts fabricating fantasies about the event. Steven Magee
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This was a Darkness born of fire. Brian A. McBride
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From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight. Brian A. McBride
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The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness. Brian A. McBride