Quotes About Fantasy

Despite the deep pits that lead to oubliettes, the trees that move to make you lose your way, the ice spiders that wrap their prey in frozen gossamer, the mad king, and the curse.

I like you," I tell him. "I like playing pretend with you." "Pretend?" he echoes, as though he's not sure if I'm insulting him. ... "Of course we're pretending! We don't belong together, but it's fun anyway.

He looked down at a red book, embossed in gold. The title was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. He frowned at it in confusion. It wasn't what he'd thought a mortal book would be like; he thought they would be dull things, odes to their cars or skyscrapers. ... 'This is really a mortal book?' he asked.

I need you to tell me everything about, you know, video games and science fiction shows and movies.

I am in a gown of deep forest green with crow feathers covering the shoulders and sleeves, while Cardan wears a doublet ornamented with bright beetle wings.

Human girls cry when they're sad and laugh when they're happy. They have a single fixed shape rather than shifting with their whims like windblown smoke. They have their own parents, whom they love. They don't go around stealing other girls' mothers. At least that's what Kaye thought human girls were like. She wouldn't really know. After all, she wasn't human.

By you, I am forever undone -Cardan Greenbriar

By you, I am forever undone -Cardan

In the dream, everything was convenient, everything was perfect, everything would be fine forever.

Marry me,' he says. 'Become the Queen of Elfhame.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

Holly Black, Cassandra Clare

I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees

Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ideas about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

La ilusión es una memoria convertida en deseo.

When Alice says she cannot believe in impossible things, the Queen replies: 'I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Wherever she went, whatever she did, part of her mind was always imagining a hypothetical life running parallel to her actual one,

She'd looked at the stubble along his jawline, and the thought had crossed her mind: He looks like Clark Kent, but maybe he's really Superman.

None of this seems real," said Alice. "I'm like Alice in Wonderland. Remember how much I hated that book? Because nothing made sense. You didn't like it either. We liked things to make sense.

Cecilia sipped her tea and imagined herself going back through time and putting that Khrushchev in his place.

There was something a little sad about having erotic dreams when you led such an unerotic life.

Our parents are turning into vampires," Jane's brother had said to her. "Jigsaw-playing vampires.

As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn't quite articulate it except with the words If only I were here.