Quotes About Fantasy

What if the child's dependence on her twin is so great that the separation causes a mental trauma such that the damaged mind provides solace by the creation of an imaginary twin, a fantasy companion? We arrived at no satisfactory conclusion but parted with the satisfaction of having located another area of future study: linguistics.

Things you let yourself imagine happening, never do happen.

Our Clare doesn't much care for real life,' Drew told Jane. 'What she needs is to live in a book– the kind that no longer gets written.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

But that's why you built the towers, isn't it? Weren't the towers built as fantasies of wealth and power that would one day become fantasies of destruction? You build a thing like that so you can see it come down. The provocation is clear. What other reason would there be to go so high and then to double it, do it twice? It's a fantasy, so why not do it twice? You are saying, Here it is, bring it down.

Are secrets a tunnel to a dreamworld where you control events?

How much pleasure did you take as a kid," Lasher said, "in imagining yourself dead?

I live in fantasies. I live terrific lives in my head. It's part of the creative imagination, to daydream, to invent stories.

There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

Creative interpretation of reality resulting from wishful thinking

She was a living reverie for me: the mere sight of her sparked an almost infinite range of fantasy, from Greek to Gothic, from vulgar to divine.

God, you're so hot, Irena. When are we going to get together, have ourselves a litter of little kiggens?" "On the first of never, Andy. And they wouldn't be kiggens. They'd be pities.

Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead.

It's that simple. A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know you've never seen me before, but I'm your dad. Oh, and guess what? You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

In dreams, as in love, all is possible.

Lord of the Rings!