Quotes About Fantasy

And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King.

Summer was a long hot dream.

Unicorn Island

Rosemary was waiting for the class in the stables with her own unicorn, who had a pink-and-purple-striped mane.

Nature is only another chimera.

In mass culture, imperialist nostalgia takes the form of reenacting and reritualizing in different ways the imperialist, colonizing journey as narrative fantasy of power and desire, of seduction by the Other. This

La fantasía, lo fantástico, lo imaginable que yo amo y con lo cual he tratado de hacer mi propia obra es todo lo que en el fondo sirve para proyectar con más claridad y con más fuerza la realidad que nos rodea.

Nunca me quisiste, era otra cosa, una manera de soñar.

desde que comencé a escribir —e incluso desde mucho antes— siempre me fue difícil distinguir entre lo que mi inteligencia racional ve de la realidad y lo que mi propia fantasía le pone por encima o por debajo y que la transforma. No puedo hacer una distinción demasiado clara entre fantasía y realidad;

Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, imagine ourselves to look like elves?

His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in the back of the class, beind his DM's screen, and watched his adolescence stream by. Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

He had secret loves all over town, the kind of curly-haired big-bodied girls who wouldn't have said boo to a loser like him but about whom he could not stop dreaming.

I dream about oblivion like other people dream of good sex...

But you know exactly what kind of world we live in. It ain't no fucking Middle-earth.

Dejah Thoris.

He was our Sauron, our Arawn, our Darkseid, our Once and Future Dictator, a personaje so outlandish, so perverse, so dreadful that not even a sci-fi writer could have made his ass up.

Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

He had entered sleep's antechamber, the place where dreams and memories mingled, telling their strange stories;

the Waldorf-Astoria crystallized the improbable and fabulous. It was more than a mere hotel. It was a vast, glittering, iridescent fantasy that had been conjured up to infect millions of plain Americans with a new idea—the aspiration to lead an expensive, gregarious life as publicly as possible.

I have 20 000 girlfriends, all around the world.

And yes, I confess, when I looked at him, I thought of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester and Maxim de Winter... and how could I not, when I had been waiting for them to step out of the pages of the books I loved; when I knew them so well, read them inside out and into myself?

Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition.

in an ideal world, you'd be able to pick beef puddings from a beef pudding tree.

Because I write contemporary, magical realism and speculative for both children and adults, I spend a lot of time thinking about real settings for the contemporary books and the pieces that could be taken from those places to create fantasy spaces. But I also like to look for the magic in the real world…