Quotes About Fantasy

Reality, it is true, has a lot to answer for, so on the whole we make sure we don't live there. We cannot control reality, but we can control our fantasies. Except our fantasies don't exist; so we're not really controlling anything at all. But the illusion of control is deeply reassuring. And the price we pay for this reassurance is unimaginable.

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

I thought about diving in, about crashing headfirst into the clear shallow sea, my head splintering. I also thought about the time between diving and landing when I imagine all people changed their minds. For me it was only a flirtation, not serious, merely an acknowledgment of how much I was dreading the next hours. It cheered me that I could have that fantasy.

This motion is something out of Alice in Wonderland !

Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy; unhappy rich people don't even have that.

Dragons appear to those who believe, and only then if we wish.

Thaddeus Osbert sat in the middle of my office, scrunched over so he could fit. He looked me right in the eye and said, "So, I understand you believe in dragons." I nodded. He sat back and studied me for a minute or two, before uttering, "Yes, you'll do.

Can I ask you a question? You know with vampires and werewolves and goblins and things, is there any mythological creature that doesn't actually exist?" "Of course," he replied. "The unicorn and the leprechaun would be would be the two main ones. The Loch Ness Monster isn't real, either, that's just someone called Bert.

And then the Necromancers pulled out their sub-atomic machine guns.

She's not… She's not datin' the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone… nice? He's got no skin, or lips, or… or nothin'.

Seeing you with a face would be weird. Do you think you'd have hair?" "Oh yes. Hair is a must." "Would you have a moustache?" "Why would I have a moustache?" "I'm not sure. What about your ears?" "I'd have ears too, yes." "I can't imagine you with ears.

I didn't think they even existed. They're in stories, in legends, and we have Dragon Eye jewels and dragon threads and dragon this and that, but no one ever seriously thought these things came from actual dragons. That would have been... ridiculous. - Skulduggery

Mum, Dad, Fergus... this is Skulduggery Pleasant

Cow - Tanith Low

Skeleton adventures are different. There's more room for puns.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

Aniimal Town:~) The place where Dreams & Adventures come true!

Life has more imagination than We carry in our dreams.

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality

Jeff VanderMeer

The star rigger's Flux: a higher-dimensional realm where reality and fantasy became strangely merged, where landscapes of the mind intersected with the real fabric of space, where space itself flowed and surged with movement—and where a rigger's skills could vault him across light-years, or send him spiraling to his death.

THAT'S WHAT SF IS ALL ABOUT. IF YOU WISH TO YIELD TO REALITY, GO READ PHILIP ROTH; READ THE NEW YORK LITERARY ESTABLISHMENT MAINSTREAM BESTSELLING WRITERS. . . . THIS IS WHY I LOVE SF. I LOVE TO READ IT; I LOVE TO WRITE IT. THE SF WRITER SEES NOT JUST POSSIBILITIES BUT WILD POSSIBILITIES. IT'S NOT JUST, "WHAT IF—." IT'S "MY GOD; WHAT IF—." IN FRENZY AND HYSTERIA. THE MARTIANS ARE ALWAYS COMING.