Quotes About Fantasy

Some people use their imagination

You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale. "So magic is real," I said. "Which makes you a...what?" "A wizard." "Like Harry Potter?" Nightingale sighed. "No," he said. "Not like Harry Potter." "In what way?" "I'm not a fictional character," said Nightingale.

Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.

My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

Fuck me,' I said to Toby. 'We're living in Isengard.

Carnivorous unicorns, I thought.

Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.

Oh shit, I thought, if this isn't the Low King of the Dwarves then I'm the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women's Institute.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen,

Ben Aaronovitch

Vrei s? fii vr?jitor, a zis. — Nu ?tiu. — Mincinosule. Vrei s?-i fii ucenic ?i s? înve?i magia ?i s? c?l?re?ti pe o m?tur?. — Nu prea cred c? vr?jitorii adev?ra?i c?l?resc m?turi.

Are you expecting to meet a dragon?" I asked, and remembered Brook had mentioned them, too. Perhaps dragons were a Northern thing, like flat caps and an ingrained sense of grievance.

I lasted about an hour before the naming of the Valar drove me to exercise.

In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the tale, the plainer the prose should be. Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.

She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission a long-running fantasy.

fleeing into an imagined past

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

Since the dawn of time, nearly every man (and I'd wager to guess most women) has, at his most visceral level, secretly desired for one thing - to be standing triumphantly atop a heaping pile of his slain enemies, holding a gigantic axe aloft while some unbelievably attractive member of whatever gender he's attracted to desperately clutches his leg like it's the last life raft on the HMS Titanic.

You taught me the ways of desire, now it's takin' its toll You're the right kind of sinner, to release my inner fantasy

No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

Creo que en el interior de cada hombre cuelga un retrato estilizado de la mujer ideal, un modelo con el que comparar a esta o a aquella mortal de carne y hueso que sostiene entre sus brazos.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

Before i launch into a discussion of what a nerd is and where the idea of nerds comes from, I'd like to diclose that when i was eleven, I had a rich fantasy life in which I carried a glowing staff.

They're always wrong in the movies.