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Quotes About Fantasy

Everyone knows that ghosts don't piss!
~ Tom Robbins
I dream a dream that dreams back at me
~ Toni Morrison
She talked like that. But I understood what she meant. About having another you inside that isn't anything like you. Dorcas and I used to make up love scenes and describe them to each other. It was fun and a little smutty. Something about it bothered me, though. Not the loving stuff, but the picture I had of myself when I did it. Nothing like me. I say myself as somebody I'd seen in a picture show or a magazine. Then it would work. If I pictured myself the way I am it seemed wrong.
~ Toni Morrison
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good, but well behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.
~ Toni Morrison
They were, in fact and at last, free. And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes -- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and fantasy.
~ Toni Morrison
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive, we were not free, merely licensed, we were not compassionate, we were polite, not good, but well behaved.
~ Toni Morrison
My only real escape came from fantasy. I disappeared into a world of books, becoming obsessed with science fiction. I believed in other planets and races, searching the sky at night for stars, secretly hoping to be abducted and taken to a kinder planet. Maybe God had made a mistake sending me here, I thought. It was obvious I belonged somewhere else. Here I questioned everything and nothing ever made sense.
~ Traci Lords
She had debated, in the frivolity of the beginning, whether to build a hole or a tower; a hole, because she was fond of hobbits, or a tower — well, a tower for many reasons, but chiefly because she liked spiral staircases.
~ Keri Hulme
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
~ Keri Russell
He looked like a kobold who had just been told that he was mythical.
~ Kerry Greenwood
The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.
~ Kerry Greenwood
Teagan: How long has it been since you read a book that didn't havevampires in it? Abby: They write books with no vampires? Wait...the penguins made us read that Shakesrear guy, right? Teagan: Shakespeare.
~ Kersten Hamilton
E se tu dormissi? E se nel sonno tu sognassi? E se nel tuo sogno salissi al cielo e lì cogliessi un mirabile fiore? E se al tuo risveglio quel fiore fosse fra le tue mani? (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
~ Kerstin Gier
Non sei una ragazza qualunque, Gwendolyn" bisbigliò, mentre mi accarezzava i capelli. "Sei straordinaria. Non hai bisogno della magia del corvo per essere speciale per me." Il suo viso si avvicinò ancora di più. Quando le sua labbra toccarono la mia bocca, chiusi gli occhi. Okay. A questo punto potevo svenire.
~ Kerstin Gier
Hollywood is more of an idea than a place.
~ Kevin Bacon
You are! You're staring at me and accusing me!" She thew down her tea. "But I didn't kill my only child, Kyle, bury him in the dirt floor of the basement and construct an elaborate fantasy world! No, I did not!
~ Kevin L. Donihe
They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.
~ Kiana Davenport
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~ Kij Johnson
Reality TV has in fact absolutely nothing to do with reality.
~ Kilburn Hall
In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.
~ Kim Edwards
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
~ Kim Elizabeth
Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.
~ Kim Gordon
Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live." "The best kind of music comes when you're being intuitive, unconscious of your body, in some ways losing your mind: the Body/Head dynamic.
~ Kim Gordon
Tink's Panties!
~ Kim Harrison