Quotes About Fantasy

She was drunk on the magic of the night, giddy with glamour, swept away by beauties she had dreamt of all her life and never dared hope to know.

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.

He told me the moon was an egg, Khaleesi,' the Lysene girl said. 'Once there were two moons in the sky, but one wandered too close to the sun and cracked from the heat. A thousand thousand dragons poured forth, and drank the fire of the sun. That is why dragons breathe flame. One day the older moon will kiss the sun too, and then it will crack and the dragons will return.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter.

Ser Corliss Penny gave the clan chief an incredulous look. "Do you want to die, Wull?" That seemed to amuse the northman. "I want to live forever in a land where summer lasts a thousand years. I want a castle in the clouds where I can look down over the world. I want to be six-and-twenty again. When I was six-and-twenty I could fight all day and fuck all night. What men want does not matter.

Maybe he had fallen asleep out in the snows and dreamed himself a safe, warm place.

In the dream they were only shadows, grey wraiths on horses made of mist.

If I drink enough fire wine, he told himself, perhaps I'll dream of dragons. When he was still a lonely child in the depths of Casterly Rock, he oft rode dragons through the nights, pretending he was some lost Targaryen princeling, or a Valyrian dragonlord soaring high o'er fields and mountains.

Dreams are what we have.

A nightmare this might be, yet it was no dream.

A perceptive French critic has argued that in an age of deepening illiteracy, when even the educated have only a smattering of classical or theological knowledge, erudition is of itself a kind of fantasy, a surrealistic construct.

She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in an adolescent's dream.

Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

In this fool's paradise, he drank delight

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

What had seemed easy in imagination was rather hard in reality.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed, for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths out grabe.