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Quotes About Mythical

The Weaver wove herself from the thread of night, hair of moonlight, skin of stars. So old. Without beginning or end.
~ Cornelia Funke
The unicorns lifted their heads. Of course they weren't white. Why were things in this world always white-washed? Their hides were brown and grey, mottled black, and pale yellow like the autumn sun drifting through the damp fog above.
~ Cornelia Funke
Vidal, que, como todos os monstros, especialmente a Morte, sempre é pontual.
~ Cornelia Funke
But to the last question," Zelig replied, "he probably flew to beyond the Dark Regions, where people don't go and cattle don't stray, where the sky is copper, the earth iron, and where the evil forces live under roofs of petrified toadstools and in tunnels abandoned by moles." Isaac Bashevis Singer, Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus
~ Cornelia Funke
The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
~ Cressida Cowell
In my beginning is my end....there were Dragons when I was a boy.
~ Cressida Cowell
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half beast, but no man...Some day a man will walk into my office as a ghost or beast or ghost-beast and walk out as a man, which is to say sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher.
~ Walker Percy
Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
~ Walter Dean Myers
If you wish to make an imaginary animal invented by you appear natural, let us say a dragon, take for the head that of a mastiff or hound, for the eyes a cat, and for the ears a porcupine, and for the nose a greyhound, and the brows of a lion, the temple of an old cock, the neck of a terrapin.
~ Walter Isaacson
There must be fairies; for this is a fairy tale: and how can one have a fairy tale if there are no fairies?
~ Charles Kingsley
Why do vampires have no friends? They suck.
~ Charles Timmerman
the war between good and evil existed no longer, for the thing beneath the Graal was not fighting but vomiting.
~ Charles Williams
Better to be a legend than a star.
~ Charles Yu
I for one have always believed in the unicorn... The unicorn has managed to weave itself a very haunting reputation.
~ Jean Richardson
Hey, I like unicorns. Unicorns are just weaponized ponies.
~ Damon Suede, Bad Idea, 2013
Unicorns are just horny ponies.
~ Internet meme, c. 2014
Vampire: a toothy phlebotomist.
~ Terri Guillemets
Mermaids have no tears, and so they suffer all the more.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
metamorphosed into a creature as evil as any mythical Hulder: "a woman
~ Harold Schechter
You know what I mean. Is it true the folk hereabouts"—he pointed to the land ahead—"are cripples? Missing half their hindquarters?" "The fauns? Cripples?" I laughed. "By the gods who made them, no!
~ Harry Turtledove
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
~ Laurie E. Rozakis
Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.
~ Lemony Snicket
So you're a real person! I always thought you were a legendary figure, like unicorns or Giuseppe Verdi.
~ Lemony Snicket