Quotes About Myth

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet.

Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts.

Coyote's Daughter," he said. "We shall sing them to the great death.

I'd rather be eaten by a dragon.

There is a myth in this country that the way out of poverty is to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps," that by sheer force of will one can change the course of one's life, no matter how great the obstacles. But in all my years reporting, I've never once spoken to someone who came from abject poverty and transcended that path without help.

Every rock and stream is a myth.

We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of a man who has killed an angel.

De modo que saliste en busca de un mito y encontraste un hombre. Has oído las historias y ahora quieres los hechos reales.

I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.

Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened,

Where do you think stories come from, E'lir Kvothe? Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

So you went looking for a myth and found a man,

Chronicler found himself thinking of a story he had heard. One of the many. The story told of how Kvothe had gone looking for his heart's desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it.

The saying "time heals all wounds" is false.

I'll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn't exist. That's a hard lesson for a boy to learn.

No story can move a thousand miles by word of mouth and keep its shape.

All the truth is held in stories, you know?

I am a myth," Kote said easily, making an extravagant gesture. "A very special kind of myth that creates itself. The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Many of the stories centered around me hunting bandits and rescuing young girls. But none of them came terribly close to the truth. No story can move a thousand miles by word of mouth and keep its shape.

Interviewer: In terms of the wider mythology for your world, do we detect Christian influences? Pat: What it has is the archetype of the self-sacrificing god. But honestly, by the time Jesus did that, it was old news. A bunch of people did it before Jesus—and, to be fair, some people did it better

Every tale has deep roots somewhere in the world.

There's no good story that doesn't touch the truth,