Quotes About Fantasy

Abracadabra! Fiddle-fee-fee! Open this book and read it to me!

By the hairy ass of lord hell." Many characters in the Deverry Cycle Novels

One day, I'll run away to you.

You must have wished a million times to be normal." "No." "No?" "I've wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I've wished for a fish's tail instead of legs. I've wished to be more special." "Not normal?" "Never.

And I'm not going to lie, a little bit of me wanted to believe what I saw in advertising and in holiday movies.

What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.

The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole scale of values.

A fact was the hard outer cover of meaning, and meaning was the soft living stuff inside a fact. Fact and meaning were the driving cogs of living. If the gear of fact drove the gear of meaning, then they revolved in opposite directions, but put the gear of fantasy between the two and they both revolved in the same direction. Fantasy was and is important; it leads to heaven knows where, but follow it and see. Sometimes it pays off.

Imaginary' universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed 'real' one; and most of the finest products of an applied mathematician's fancy must be rejected, as soon as they have been created, for the brutal but sufficient reason that they do not fit the facts.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds

EL SUEÑO es una segunda vida.

That bastard Tolkien paints us dragons out to be a bunch of ignorant and repulsive savages. Well as far as I'm concerned, this Mr. Tolkien was a real low-hearted sonuvabitch.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

éblouie par son désir, entraînée par l'illusion, elle avait rêvé l'impossible.

I always wanted to try the Turkish Delight in Narnia. When I read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as a boy, I used to think that Turkish Delight must be incredibly delicious if it made Edmund betray his family," A.J. says. "I guess I must have told my wife this, because one year Nic gets a box for me for the holidays. And it turned out to be this powdery, gummy candy. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in my entire life.

I'm always seeing the world with magic eyes," he said. "I'm exploding with childish wonder.

Sam blew out 10 candles and in the distance Mary Lou Retton received a perfect 10 on her floor routine. And he almost felt like he, by blowing out the 10 candles at the precise moment that he had, had been what caused her to get the perfect 10. He fanaticized that the universe was a Rube Goldberg machine. If he had blown out only 9 candles, maybe the Romanian girl would have won instead.

Commander Keen, Myst, Doom, Diablo, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Leisure Suit Larry, The Colonel's Bequest, Ultima, Warcraft, Monkey Island, The Oregon Trail

He wanted Ichigo's life, a lifetime of endless, immaculate tomorrows, free of mistakes and the evidence of having lived.

A nostalgia for something that had never been? An envy at their intimacy? She wondered what it would have been like if Sam had been her lover.

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

Playing Dungeons & Dragons in a group of two people is a peculiar, intimate experience

The top one in the pile is a young-adult fantasy novel in which the main character is dead. Ugh, A.J. thinks. Two of his least favorite things (postmortem narrators and young-adult novels) in one book.

When I read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a boy, I used to think that Turkish Delight must be incredibly delicious if it made Edmund betray his family