Quotes About Fantasy

They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other's phantoms, each in his separate privacy has savoured the most refined of pleasures but, connoisseurs of unreality as they were, they could not bear the crude weight, the rank smell and the ripe taste of real flesh. It is always a dangerous experiment to act out a fantasy; they had undertaken the experiment rashly and had failed…

People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as though it was quite different. But I think this a false distinction, that it is a labelling that helps librarians, and people who know the kind of thing they like and don't want their prejudices to be disturbed.

Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

You're nothing but the furious invention of my virgin nights.

Wakey Wakey My Little Tinker stud, I want to play with your magic Wand

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

The Young Army was crazy. Marcia was Magyk.

Both Septimus and Beetle knew enough to recognize a jinnee when they saw one, and Wolf Boy knew quite enough to recognize something extremely weird.

Spit Fyre practised a recently acquired skill - he winked.

Midday already. As if it isn't enough that I have to put up with a meddling Alchemist - any minute now there will be a meddling Princess at my door declaiming from that wretched book with its tiddly-squiddly type, which is the bane of every ExtraOrdinary Wizard's life. - Marcia

From her pocket Karamander took a vial of black liquid labelled: "Headbanger. Maximum strength." With a long pipette she dropped the liquid into Oraton-Marr's mouth, then she held his nose closed until he swallowed it... "He is asleep. He will sleep for seven days. And when he wakes he will have the worst headache imaginable. I have something that will cure it if he wishes to ask me. But he will have to come to me in person and ask very, very nicely indeed.

Do you have a Boggart?" she asked Broda. Broda looked surprised. "You want a Boggart?

You are the man with the Magyk stone, aren't you? You always go out into the Time you came in?... Please, oh please, I beg of you," she said. "Take me Out." - Princess Driffa, to Septimus

Maar Brandneus negeerde Jannit. Hij vond het verveld als mensen met hun armen zwaaiden en dingen riepen als: 'Hierheen, híérheen! O, alle gaffelschoeners nog aan toe, wat doet dat beest nu weer?

The pilothouse could just about withstand the odd seagull landing on it, but it had no chance against a dragon whose total weight in seagulls was exactly 764.

Ohelpuhebteenkát! - Stanley, tegen Jenna

Een draak draagt de Prinses in zijn armen en jij vergéét dat? - Marcia, tegen Septimus

Nee, Nick, het is Ongezien, ongehoord, geen gefluister, niet een woord. En je moet het je ook voorstellen. Het heeft geen zin die spreuk af te raffelen als een demente papegaai. - Septimus

Only the fantasy of choice remained.

places that sold pixie-shittery to the tourists.

She was still thinking about Adam, the tight bum in the skinny jeans.

I met Prince Harry at Westminster and I want him to be my new boyfriend, but unfortunately I don't think it is going to happen.

Taking place in some Nordic-looking hinterland where all the seasons are out of whack, 'Game of Thrones' is the most aggressive example since 'Battlestar Galactica' of a genre that's perceived as adolescent aspiring to be fully adult.