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Quotes About Mythical

Trollocs and Fades and Warders?
~ Robert Jordan
Two great sa'angreal were made just before the end, one that you can use, one that I can. Far greater than that sword. Their power is beyond imagining. With those, we could challenge even … the Great Lord himself. Even the Creator!
~ Robert Jordan
One of the worst ways of being aroused from sound sleep, is by the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag.
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't.
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
Do you know what? I think the evening star is a lighthouse on the land where the fairies dwell.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Once in a thousand years, you know, one cat is allowed to speak. My cats are philosophers-neither of them ever cries over spilt milk.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows from the east -- a laughing girl when she comes from the west -- and tonight from the south a little grey fairy.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Monsters Beware Here Be Dragons
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Vampires are made by other vampires. Zombies are raised from the grave by an animator or voodoo priest. Ghouls, as far as we know, just crawl out of their graves on their own.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He looked like some primitive golden god hunted to death.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Do werewolves dream of shapeshifted sheep?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You
~ Lawrence Block
The Magical Negro rested his red cane on his shoulder and leisurely strolled into the forest to see if he could find him some hobbits, castles, dragons, princesses, and all that other shit.
~ Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
~ T.L. Rese
Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calistolascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi.(Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.)[Marius naming Jupiter's moons]
~ Simon Marius
Obedient to her captain's will, The Black Pearl followed her dark angel over the azure water; as fast as the wind, as free as the men who sailed her. it was almost as though she knew she was a legend in the making, destined for adventures both great and terrible...
~ A.C. Crispin
Luke Skywalker? I thought he was just a myth.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Yes, well, vampires aren't known for being cute.
~ Derek Landy
This is Resolute Thread. The more pressure applied, the stronger it gets. It's very rare. They say it was made from the stomach lining of an emperor dragon, over 2000 years ago." "Was it?" "No, it's just really strong thread.
~ Derek Landy
Actually, if there's one thing that goblins love," Skulduggery had said, "it's eating babies, but gold comes in a close second.
~ Derek Landy
a phantasm, a pink-palmed jinn, a ghost from one of the drowned cities.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
As he read the long narrative poem, Lewis was struck by two qualities in particular. He admired the realism of Tolkien's sub-created world, the depth and detail of Middle-earth. He also praised the mythical value of the story, the way the events were good in themselves and yet also suggested deeper layers of meaning to the reader. But
~ Diana Pavlac Glyer
If we are encouraged to read high fantasies like The Tempest and urged to "enjoy a magic island and 'believe' in an Ariel and a Caliban," then why should we not also "suspend our disbelief" and enjoy the invented world of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings? Why not enter in and believe also in the magic of barrow-wights and orc-blades, Hobbiton, Tom Bombadil, and the tree-top city of Lothlórien?
~ Diana Pavlac Glyer