Quotes of: Fantasy-world Keyword

In this cage, behind these bars, I think of you and me.

Caged View: A Collection of Urban Fantasy Short Stories

Fantasy Is Not Reality, it is unrealistic to expect your future mate to match your fantasies.

Insights for Singles: Steps to Find Everlasting Love

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

My Cousin Rachel

Even the best-laid plans turn to hell when exposed to reality.

Medieval Future: The Last Dragon Throne: An Epic Fantasy Adventure

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep! (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

An uncomfortable marriage can not bear the strain of the death of a beloved donkey.

Unplugged: The Web's Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 2008 Download

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

Terri Windling

Fantasy fans are incredibly loyal and passionate. Other people don't want to be seen as passionate about things, they want to be cool and laconic. The great thing about fantasy fans is they'll really get behind a show.

John Bradley-West

Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.

R. A. Salvatore

There's something terribly weird about the standard fantasy setting--not least of which the fact the phrase "standard fantasy setting" can be uttered without irony.

Yahtzee Croshaw

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think...

Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world di...

Andrew Bernstein

After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.

Flora Fyrdraaca

All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.

World After

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Samantha Shannon

In high fashion, we're always accused of doing things that are not very relevant, not the real world. I know that it's important sometimes to do fantasy, but I felt like touching people and going back to different women and men, especially the idea o...

Alber Elbaz

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood...

Peter Sloterdijk

YA stories feature a young adult protagonist or protagonists and usually focus on that character’s journey toward maturity (the tradition of the Bildungsroman.). Learning about love / relationships is an important part of that stage in our lives, s...

Juliet Marillier

know a lot of people who hide out in fantasy because reality is too hard to cope with [...] Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, som...

The Martian Child: A Novel About a Single Father Adopting a Son