Quotes About Goblins

the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind. -from Dracula In Love

Mordak has the mental clarity to recognise that when it comes to running a bureaucracy, Elves can achieve a degree of blinkered ruthlessness that makes goblins look like teddy-bears.

'The Brownies and the Goblins' is the only book I recall from my early childhood and is the inspiration for a children's book I wrote in the 1980s titled 'The Magic Spectacles.'

They shall exist, and so long as society shall be what it is, they will be what they are. Under the dark vault of their cave, they are forever reproduced in the ooze. What is required to exorcise these goblins? Light. Light in floods. No bat resists the dawn. Illuminate society.

and Umétsu remembered that goblins were wont to assume feminine shapes after dark, in order to deceive and destroy men.

Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on a soft bloom of blood. The girls with hungry eyes who pray each night to wake up as someone else. Urgent, unkissed, wishful girls. Like Kizzy.

Goblins are well-rounded, though you'd never think it from the dastard tales folk tell of us. For example, I enjoy stamp collecting as well as haggling.

Indeed it is, Kate,' Marak agreed. 'It's time to plan your revenge. Goblins just adore revenge.' He grinned. 'Do you have anything in mind?' Kate was taken aback. 'Revenge is wrong,' she told him solemnly. 'Vengeance belongs to God.' The goblin put his head to one side and watched her through narrowed eyes. 'You won't even give God a little help?' he asked softly.

You're thinking of the Old Ones of the old times," said Haakon, "before they dwindled. They were dwindling in my day–those who'd not departed altogether. I see they've brought themselves lower still." "From gods to elves, from elves to fairies, from fairies to pixies and goblins and brownies," said Tom. "And in the end to an even lower thing–behavioral scientists.

Charlie tipped her head up. "Are you sure? We're a simple people. No automobiles or fancy gadgets." "Simple?" She chuckled. "Ha! Worlds that think and kings that plot? Sandobbles and goblins, portals and two moons? You are sadly mistaken. Besides," she said, tracing the edge of his forewing with the tip of her finger. He shuddered against her. "There's magic here.

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright Of soft and golden hue Pierce through the future's veil and show What fate now holds for you. By goblins of the cornfield stark By witches dancing on the green By pumpkins grinning in the dark I wish you luck this Hallowe'en.

Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy

Evening by evening Among the Brookside rushes, Laura bow'd her head to hear, Lizzie veil'd her blushes: Crouching close together In the cooling weather, With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and fingertips. "lie close," Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: "We must not look at Goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: who knows upon the soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?" "Come buy," call the Goblins Hobbling down the glen

Punching goblins, replied Sprockett soothingly, while offering short-term relief, has no long-term beneficial value

A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.

I did not want to spend the night on the lonely plain. I was afraid of ten thousand ghosts, and of the ogres and goblins that dwelled in the forest around it. The murmur of a stream sounded to me like the voice of the water spirit, and every time a fox barked or an owl hooted I came awake, my pulse racing.

But pink's a nice color." "Not for goblins. Pink is the color of pure evil." I had a flashback to shopping for one of my nieces in the all-pink Barbie aisle at Toys "R" Us. I had to admit, it had creeped me out. I nodded. "I can see that.

It's too early for strawberries. But the clearing is filled with their leaves and their little white flowers, like fallen stars. The wishing well was covered, too, so that only someone who knew it was there would have really noticed it. It looks like a barrow under the green; somewhere fairies or goblins might live.

Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again.

the goblins were chanting, "One two three four, Kill two three four, One two three four, Kill two three four," on and on endlessly.

For an instant Stile was daunted by the improbability of it all: a man, a cyborg, a robot, an animalhead, and a wooden golem, all riding unicorns through a battlefield strewn with goblins and dragons, pursuing an invaluable ball of power-rock that rolled along a channel cleared by plastic explosive. What a mishmash!

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.