All Quotes By Tag: Fantasy

“Why is he scared of the dark?”I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. “Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is”.”

“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

“In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.”

“Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”

“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”

“Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”

“I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It’s not a big deal.” Anger replaced my fear. I didn’t like being treated like a child. “Stop calling me that. You don’t even know what you’re talking about.” “Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year.”

“In life, wisdom usually came with age, but death offered another world.”

“Contentment is quite a different thing from pleasure.”

“Not all Fantasy stories come from an empty box, instead; it comes from the heart of imagination.”

“All those things that you are, and all those things you will be, are still up to you. And the woman I know would never let a little thing like this turn her into a monster.”

“Life was strangely glorious like that sometimes; just as it could be cruel and unforgiving, so could it be a mysterious wonderland of unexpected joy and chance encounters.”

“Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell”

“If she’s lucky, she’ll grow up to be a decent person instead of the wife of a feudal lord.”

“Two intelligent people can always find common ground.”