26 Quotes About Middle Grade Fantasy

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

Sometimes what we don't want is actually what we need. Nikolas Lee

Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success. Gail Carson Levine

He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. " Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP?" Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. " This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --. Guillermo Del Toro

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ring-tailed, and the ones with matching coloured socks and mittens. There were tabbies and calicos. Manx and Persians. Siamese and Bombay. Ragdolls and Birmans. Maine Coons and Russian Blues. There were Snowshoes and Somalis, Tonkinese and Turkish, and many, many more. Brown and beige and orange and grey and black and white and silver cats, each with gleaming eyes of emerald, or sapphire, or amber. A rainbow of precious stones. . Brooke Burgess

And it is a strange thing about love... it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power. Steven J. Carroll

Gee, I wonder who you could be referring to?" Owen said. "I mean you, " Erebus said. "I just did not wish to be rude." "All you've been is rude." Owen muttered just under a whisper. "Some minds are more capable than others." Erebus smiled at Hugh. Karen Ann Wirtz

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever. Steven J. Carroll

In a near-by clearing, Cricket and How-Ya-Do came upon a ridiculously comical sight. It was an extra-large hyper-manic bird yelling at the funniest looking Crawfish that she had ever seen. The Crawfish stood over a foot tall, which just does not happen, and he was wearing a light-blue beanie and gold chains around his neck. Darwun St. James

That poor innocent snake was far more terrified of Nana then she ever was of the snake. Cricket could barely believe her eyes, but when that shotgun went off with a boom so did the snake. Up until yesterday, Cricket had never seen a snake fly! Darwun St. James

When things are good, it is because we remember a time when they were not. When there was pain. But now the pain is gone, so things are ‘good’. When we hurt, it is because we recall a time when we did not. When there was no pain. But now we suffer, so things are ‘bad’. The tiger sipped from the cup, peering at the boy over the rim. Stars swirled in its eyes. “Good. Bad. The cup holds both. Brooke Burgess

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed. Steven J. Carroll

He looked up at the stars as the storm closed in and saw them extinguished, one-by-one, until just two remained. They glimmered and shone through gaps in the clouds like two great eyes in the darkness, burning on a demon’s face that chased him across the sea. Brooke Burgess

No one is only one thing, my dear. Nikolas Lee

When I grow up, maybe I will bethe first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spend all my daydoing everything my way. Maybe I will be in a world of my own I just hope not alone. I just know that whatever I do I will never, ever forget about you. Oliver Neubert

Trolls have existed on this planet for as long as humans. This is what I was told and what I translated to Tub. The first mention of them in recorded history is from ninth-century Norway, when the nefarious creatures began showing up in song, verse, and bedtime stories to keep misbehaving children in line. According to Norse folklore, trolls are one of the Dark Beings, the purest embodiments of evil, and they scurried from between the toes of Ymir, the mythic six-headed Frost Giant whose murdered body became the universe in which we live; his bones became the mountains, his teeth boulders, and so forth. . Guillermo Del Toro

It’s a terrible thing, isn’t it? To be dragged under? Guillermo Del Toro

He felt weighted down by guilt and regret for what might have been his last words to all of them. Karen Ann Wirtz

I can do whatever I wish. That's the benefit of being me." ~ Belial Sharon Ledwith

And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear. Steven J. Carroll

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart. Steven J. Carroll

Would it surprise you to know that a presence was on your back a few seconds ago? Teresa Flavin

A tomb is a vault, a vault is a home, ” Mr. Sadlot said casually sniffing the flower in his lapel. “That’s where the deceased chose to reside and that is where he will be placed.” Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp Robert W Sweeting