Quotes About Fantasy

Now he closed his eyes and unwished the test pass and wished instead that this little twisty key would turn Gillon's present into a secret cupboard.

She looked so cute with her face all swollen and scrunched up like that. It made him think this must be what little evil elves must look like.

If she couldn't accept that vampires existed, he'd never convince her to be his life mate.

Sometimes the things you fantasize about aren't what you end up really wanting

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

He knew what she wanted, and he wanted it, too; he was ready, but not, despite her gorgeousness, with Tiglah. Tiglah was not worth losing his ability to touch a unicorn.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

I am a mere unicorn. Gaudior dropped his silver lashes modestly.

What a child doesn't realize until he is grown is that in responding to fantasy, fairy tale, and myth he is responding to what Erich Fromm calls the one universal language, the one and only language in the world that cuts across all barriers of time, place, race, and culture.

They turned around, and they saw, there by the great rock— wings, it seemed like hundreds of wings, spreading, folding, stretching— and eyes how many eyes can a drive of dragons have? and small jets of flame

Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.

It couldn't possibly mean that his latest fling might be someone from Ireland. That would be too hurtful to imagine. Or someone that he was taking to Ireland on a magic trip. Some girl that he was going to impress with his fairytale ways in the Emerald Isle.

What's a Sinbad?

She was so eager and enthusiastic that Freda and Lane felt dull and slow in comparison. If Eva had been running the library, there might be fairy lights around it, and music blaring from inside. She could have set up a cocktail bar in the foyer. Her life was like her house—a colorful fantasy where anything was possible if you wanted it badly enough.

Twentieth-century man has created his own fantasies through science (...). What fantastic achievements have thereby been made possible in the way of moving faster, growing richer, communicating more rapidly, mastering illnesses, and altogether overcoming the hazards of our earthly existence. But all the achievements have led to a true nature of our being: in other words, an alienation from God. If it were possible to live without God, it would not be worth living at all.

Overnight Success Happens Only in Fairy Tales, Trashy Novels, and Bad Movies.

Keep dreaming, dreams have no limit.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

This is how power is eclipsed: in a moment of vivid realism, between the waning of one fantasy of governance and its replacement by the next; in an instant when the world springs free of its mooring of dreams and reveals itself to be girdled in the pathways of survival and self-preservation. The

Non capisci, Nimi sogna solo per poter raccontare. E poi, i suoi sogni, non smettono nemmeno dopo che si è svegliato, la mattina.

I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.

i daydreamed about being somewhere else, about being someone else.

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination.

She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse.