Fantasy
Quotes - Humans need fantasy to be human
“Peeta
opens his mouth for the first bite without hesitation. He swallows, then frowns
slightly. "They're very sweet."
"Yes
they're sugar berries. My mother makes jam from them. Haven't you've ever had
them before?" I say, poking the next spoonful in his mouth.
"No,"
he says, almost puzzled. "But they taste familiar. Sugar berries?"
"Well,
you can't get them in the market much, they only grow wild," I say.
Another mouthful goes down. Just one more to go.
"They're
sweet as syrup," he says, taking the last spoonful. "Syrup." His
eyes widen as he realizes the truth. I clamp my hand over his mouth and nose
hard, forcing him to swallow instead of spit. He tries to make himself vomit
the stuff up, but it's too late, he's already losing consciousness. Even as he
fades away, I can see in his eyes what I've done is unforgiveable.
I
sit back on my heels and look at him with a mixture of sadness and
satisfaction. A stray berry stains his chin and I wipe it away. "Who can't
lie, Peeta?" I say, even though he can't hear me.”
―
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
“If
you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and
telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a
lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the
endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the
glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing:
telling a good story. Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother
singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark
outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than
any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”
―
Patrick Rothfuss
“Fantasy.
Lunacy.
All revolutions
are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“The
cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment
with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.”
―
Ian McEwan, Atonement
“I
swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."
She
raised an eyebrow.
"Sharp
as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
“She
is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine
line between deadly and divine. And I can feel myself drowning.”
―
Lauren Roberts, Powerless
“I
was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that
stirred me about the world.”
―
Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses
“Here
you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”
―
Walt Disney
“While
an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his
grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’” “‘It’s history,
my boy.’” “The grandson comes nearer and exclaims, “‘But this is a porno site,
grandpa, naked chicks, sex . . . a lot of sex!’” “‘Well, it’s sex for you, my
son, but for me it’s history,’ the old man says with a sigh.” All of people in
the cabin burst into laughter. “A stale joke, but a cool one,” added William
More, the man who just told the joke. The navigator skillfully guided the
flying disc among the dense orange-yellow blanket of clouds in the upper
atmosphere that they had just entered. Some of the clouds were touched with a
brownish hue at the edges. The rest of the pilots gazed curiously and intently
outwards while taking their seats. The flying saucer descended slowly, the
navigator’s actions exhibiting confidence. He glanced over at the readings on
the monitors below the transparent console: Atmosphere: Dense, 370 miles thick,
98.4% nitrogen, 1.4% methane Temperature on the surface: ‒179°C / ‒290°F Density: 1.88 g/cm³ Gravity: 86% of
Earth’s
Diameter of the cosmic body: 3200 miles / 5150 km.”
―
Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
“Would
you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your
misery?”
―
Paul Cude, Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past
“Humans
need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the
rising ape.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“Run
first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'
It
was the perfect motto for Morganville.”
―
Rachel Caine, Glass Houses
“I
want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“And
that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark
parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria,
any way you can.”
―
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“Because
you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh,
and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.”
―
P.C. Cast, Untamed
“I
get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal."
Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child.
"Stop
calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about."
"Sure
I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year.”
―
Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
“Fantasy,
if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it
represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.”
―
Walt Disney
“Have
you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens
your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside
you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole
armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different
from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a
piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss
you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes
hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the
darkness, so a simple phrase like "maybe we should just be friends"
or "how very perceptive" turns into a glass splinter working its way
into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind.
It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.
Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones
“Her
unexpected outburst rocked Flaminius to his core. Suddenly, she didn't seem so
angelic. Her face twisted with rage; veins in her neck throbbed with fury in a
scene all too familiar. Her reaction switched him off to her instantly as all
his worst fears came to life.”
―
Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
“Aurelia,
not all those women are uppity aristocratic bitches. Most of them are normal
nice girls trying to survive in shark-infested waters, so if you want to make a
difference, why not go in there and change the way things work?"
"How?" Marcus smiled deviously. "By unseating the queen bee and
changing the rules." "That sounds like a great idea, Colonel. Lead me
to the beehive.”
―
Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
