Fantasy Series Quotes

I didn't want to rush into things, or move ahead when we were both drunk on the essence of such a highly exotic moment. ~ Sana Khatri

I am yours," Trent gasped through clenched teeth, and my hand sprang from him, thinking I was betrayed. Trent fell to a knee, looking up at me, pleading. "I. Am. Yours. Claim me, Rachel! Damn your morals and claim me! ~ Kim Harrison

The guy's light eyes sparkled as he gazed at her, the weight of his body pinning Kade to the floor. "Are you trying to get us both killed?" His voice came out low, deadly. "Or is this how you usually meet people?" Glancing toward Kade's chest, flush against his, he smirked. "Because I'm not going to lie...it's effective. ~ Laney McMann

Do I strike you as a frivolous man, Kelly?"
I look at him, sitting there in another thousand dollar suit. Pompous? Yes. Self-centered? Yes. Careless? "No. ~ Bill Blais

Destiny is as it is. Nothing can change it. Accept it before it ruins you. ~ J.L. Sheppard

Holy moly Pikachu bolts! ~ Adele Rose

People generally forget the things they are ashamed of, but no one ever forgets an insult. ~ Lina J. Potter

I've been reading all sorts of objects for years, and yet I feel as if I know nothing. An Earth shattered to pieces. Deliberately forgetful family spirits. Indecipherable Books. You. ~ Christelle Dabos

He could still be her knight. But that was it. She would not love someone who had no faith in her. ~ Maggie L. Wood

Her body jerked when his arm draped over her. "You have no idea how often I've dreamed of this moment," Seth whispered in a drowsy voice. ~ Kelsey Ketch

The ego of a god, the wit of a goldfish. ~ Shah Wharton

Protect us, Golden One. I believe we are all going to need it. ~ Cynthia D. Witherspoon

Warwick Castle, Oxford University, the Cotswold, and the countryside of England are my favorite places to visit when I'm in England. Whenever I visit, I feel as if I've come home. These places inspired my settings for my fantasy series, Bitter Frost Series, Wordwick Games, and The Alchemists Academy. I didn't know the great author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was also inspired by Warwick, Oxford, and Cotswold. Imaginative minds must dream alike. ~ Kailin Gow

Soon, they actually began to titter on their toes as they glared at me, looking more like an army of angry wasps than ever before. All they needed now were matching yellow and black jumpers and pretend stingers! ~ Adele Rose

She seemed exotic and strange, a mysterious siren with devilish companions and spell-caught whorls that gleamed alluringly all over her pearl skin. ~ Maggie L. Wood

The only wand you'll ever need is a better-feeling thought. ~ C.G. Rousing

Hate is what will obliterate the brightest of the stars that shine inside your heart. ~ Victoria Moschou

Darkness holds eternal sway over he who cannot first find the light within himself. ~ Melissa McPhail

She had taken the life of the one that had taken her mother's. She had avenged her brother's death. She was a hunter now. But Mother would never know and Wolfsbane would hunt alone. Their kind, the last humans of the Wylder Mountains, would fade into the snow like the majik of the Lost City. ~ Jennifer Silverwood

Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead. ~ E.J. Stevens

Sometimes you need to loose in order to win. ~ Adele Rose

How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven't you heard of fiction? This might be just from the imagination of a poet! ~ Jason Ellis

The priest rubbed his bruised shoulder, the eyes within the feline mask glaring at Stonny. At Gruntle's words he faced the Daru again. 'These are not matters open to debate, Mortal Sword. You are what you are-'
'I'm a caravan guard captain, and damned good at it. When I'm sober, that is.'
'You are the master of war in the name of the Lord of Summer-'
We'll call that a hobby. ~ Steven Erikson

But no life was without it's strain & strife, not if it was fully lived. Opening up to experience, even the good ones like trust & love, was to open yourself up to the pain. I suppose the key was to not compound matters by making the rest of it unnecessarily hard. My need for control had certainly done that in the past. So I made a promise to myself in that moment.
I would make a concerted effort to reach for what was soft & good in this world. I'd find a place to settle into, and hold still so that this world's good and soft could reach back & touch me as well. ~ Vicki Pettersson

If you're going to have a complicated story, you must work to a map; otherwise you can never make a map of it afterwards. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

How much do we lose because we are young and stupid? ~ Lina J. Potter

That's because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole," said one of the other boys. "C.S. Lewis never went through any doors. He didn't know how it worked. He wanted to tell a story, and he'd probably heard about kids like us, and he made shit up. ~ Seanan McGuire

Hello, Lady Witch," he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again."
"Occupational hazard," Lily mumbled... ~ Josephine Angelini

Clearly, she hadn't heard of the two words 'social' and 'life'. ~ Adele Rose

Simon's baby," he said, rocking on his heels. "Simon's baby girl. But you are too many, much too many to be Simon's baby girl. How many are you?"

"Seventeen," I whispered. He was still uncomfortably close.

"Lane!" he shouted. I jumped. "Do I have a niece of seventeen?"

"Yes," came Lane's voice from the door.

The old man relaxed. "Then that is as it should be. Lane always knows when things are as they should be. Where is your father, little niece? ~ Sharon Cameron

curiosity in this place was as dangerous as it was essential."- A Mirror Among Shattered Glass. ~ Romarin Demetri

Normally, I would have kicked him in the nuts for touching me without my consent. ~ V.M. Marsh

Don't you think it's best that you stay away from mortals? You know they break so easily these days. ~ Kimberly Spencer

What is life but a fucked-up factory fabricating fuckups? ~ Jorge Enrique Ponce

What would become of me if I was never truly seen again? - Joanna ~ Vicki Pettersson

He would give up his wings and heaven for her, a woman he loved but would never truly belong to him, a woman he could never keep. He'd fall and be banished from the only home he'd ever known, but he could never give her up. He'd keep her, enjoy her and love her as long as he could. ~ J.L. Sheppard

Living with thieves, it would be a matter of moments before they picked the lock, but she certainly was not going to make it easy for them. ~ M.L. Chesley

Tallis had persevered through and unshakable feeling of not truly belonging... She understood the responsibility her family constraints put upon her, and while Lana knew Tallis's heart trembled and raged at the perceived indignity of it all, she had grown up into a charming, beautiful woman with shoulders that refused to bow to a world that demanded they should. ~ C.E. Clayton

Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil. - Gandalf the Grey, The Return of the King ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can't see.
- Lady Lalaigne ~ Jeanine Henning

Say that again."
"My love..."
"It sounds stunning when you say it."
"Really?"
"Yes. ~ Sana Khatri

Admitting defeat? How un-huntress like of you. ~ Yvonne Nicolas

We're the last of the Tasburai. We have to keep the faith. ~ Rehan Khan

In front of me stands a willow tree by a river, its long green tendrils trailing into the chuckling water. A man sits beneath the tree, back propped against the trunk, gently strumming a lute as he looks out over the water. He feels familiar to me, as if I must know him. As if it would be impossible not to know him.
I do not approach. I simply listen to the water and the lute, the sound settling deeply into my bones and heart. ~ Suzanna J. Linton

He pushed his way between them with his burly frame and forced her to stand in the cold with him. He flipped the long, silver dagger so its worn handle faced her. "Take your claw, pup," he growled.
This was called White Fang, a blade almost as legendary as the hunter who owned it. It has been long told in the village that as a youth, Wolfsbane had destroyed an entire pack on his own, thus earning his name. ~ Jennifer Silverwood

Kestrel, this isn't you."
She pressed back against the chill glass. "I don't know what you mean."
"This voice you've been using, that bright one...do you think I don't recognize it? It's the sound of you laying a trap. Of you hiding behind your own words. And I know that the way you've been talking is not you. Say what you want about me, about what happened between us, about the shape of the sun and the color of the grass and any other truths in this world you want to deny. Deny everything until the gods strike you down. But you can't say that I don't know you." He was now close enough that the air between them was alive against Kestrel's skin. "I... have thought about you." His voice dropped. "I have thought about how I have never known you to be dishonest with me. ~ Marie Rutkoski

Darkness will always be...its own master... ~ C.K. Mullinax

Armani froze to the spot, unable to move. Her breath tightened in her lungs, shivers of awareness ran down her spine, the sudden energy zipping through her body announcing the shimmer of recognition. ~ Suzan Battah

Patience is the virtue that forges great men. ~ Chris Vincent

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
- Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away. ~ Tanna Marie Angers

My thoughts, my dreams, they had been nothing in comparison. They were a single drop of water, and this, the whole sea. ~ J.M. Miller

Seth let out a heavy sigh and ran his fingers through his hair. She had a point. Constant stops would put them at greater risk, especially when it came to Natti being seen. And obviously, it wasn't likely she'd stay in the car, even if he did ask. Maybe if he tied her up in the backseat? ~ Kelsey Ketch

This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?

From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets. ~ Robert Delgado

The faerie queen's compassion was even more frightening than her anger. ~ Maggie L. Wood

Armani halted, thinking twice about making her way over there, but she pushed forward not wanting to believe something was wrong. There was nothing worse than walking into a nightmare. And Armani just did. The air in her lungs seized when she saw her draped all over him. She blinked a few times, but Lily was still pressing her body all over Rafael.
Armani wanted to kill her, right then and there. ~ Suzan Battah

Kate Daniels, deadly swordswoman and rescuer of hungry orphans. Come in. Wash your hands. ~ Ilona Andrews

I'll never turn her away, Clyde. She's my mate. I'll protect her till my dying breath. I'll even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a man who has done nothing but try to drive a wedge between her and myself. ~ J.L. Sheppard

The grass and the vines and the willow tree were all so lush and vividly green that he was slightly awed by them. Their location within an alcove of a cliff made all of it more remarkable. It was such an unexpected place for something so beautiful, like an oasis in the middle of a barren desert. ~ Katie Lynn Johnson

You're not safe with me."
He cut me off, seeming to growl. "I don't want to be safe. I want to be with you. You can't do this alone. ~ S.G. Holster

Because obviously the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. If only life were that great
instead of burnt flesh and turning into ash we had money-giving fairies, bunnies laying pink eggs, and fat men coming down my chimney bearing presents ... ~ Christina Channelle

Lovers, even those who are married, always exist autonomously of one another, no matter how close they are or how long they've known each other. That's why jealously can flare in even the most intimate relationships.
Because you know that at some basic level this person exists separately from you. No mater how close you are, the landscape of their life is always tinted a different hue than your own. - Hunter to Joanna ~ Vicki Pettersson

It will begin with the six who now tread the streets of a city where the stone pinnacle erects like a reed amongst long grass. Where a bridge expands across a gorge, drifts a cloud buzzing with a million stings. There, these six shall bleed. There, these six shall die, and like a plague shall spread the wings that carry the cloud till they consume the city, and with it, the strength that fuels all of your lives. Farewell, children of the new world, and may your deaths be swift. ~ Najeev Raj Nadarajah

Ah, the bliss of Mahotsava!
What joy it brings to every heart!
What a rare and precious chance
To share all knowledge with the wise,
And bless and love all peoples of the Earth!"
- Book of Secrets I, 1 ~ Robert Delgado

I immediately thought of the stars. Stars. Heavenly bodies formed by huge clouds of dust and gas bumping
into one another, getting bigger, their gravity getting stronger. Once hot enough, nuclear fusion occurs. And then a star is formed.
People are shaped in a similar way - just like stars - excessive amounts of dust and hot gas. And like stars, everyone's life has a turning point prior to their big bang. The shit show before the creation. Y 'know, one of those moments that can fuck you up.
Cleopatra's was when her father named her joint regent at fourteen. Fucked-up.
Bruce Wayne's when he witnessed his parents get murdered. Fucked-up.
Charles Manson's when his mother sold him for a pitcher of beer. Fucked. Up.
Not to mention 'Helter Skelter. ~ Jorge Enrique Ponce

I'm beginning to feel as though we're in some kind of cocoon, I'm just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me. ~ Nicole T. Smith

How long since he'd been back home? Ten years? Fifteen? He'd stopped keeping track around the time he'd finally stopped looking over his shoulder. At the time, leaving had seemed too good to be true. He'd spent months feeling like he was half a step ahead of some nameless specter; like if he let his guard down, even for a second, whatever it was would drag him right back where he'd come from. ~ Laura Oliva

Sometimes you must slow down to see that the world isnt spinning, rather its your own mind which makes things turn ~ Sedrie Danielle

So the owner of a monster head wants to meet on a path named Nut," I said. "That's appropriate. ~ Lisa Shearin

What if the Devil doesn't know he's the Devil? ~ Cathrine Goldstein

The motel owner, who walked up when the police car came screaming in with lights flashing, takes me into the office. He sits me down with a mug of coffee. The mug is blue and reads in white lettering, Warning: Murderous Until Caffeinated. ~ Suzanna J. Linton

King Yorandt to Kristina in book three of Fracture the Secret Enemy Saga~Secrets
release date: Summer 2014

Even the master does not play perfectly. He can only hope to make fewer mistakes than his opponent, and that in the end, he is the victor. Sajah (chess) is a ruthless game where the pieces are all pawns and the Queen is the true killer.
She spares no one to protect the king. The king however, is ruled by all of the pieces that lay before him, even his opponent. Every move is a decision that can change the whole board, and the endgame. ~ Virginia McKevitt

I swear. Tell someone you're a vampire or a werewolf and they think it's sexy. Tell someone you're a witch and they go from zero to Torquemada in three seconds flat. ~ Laura Oliva

You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends. ~ Brian D. Anderson

Ain't good to talk too much about infernal affairs if you can avoid it. Tends to make certain things stand up and pay attention. ~ Laura Oliva

Samantha turns toward us as we enter and her mouth drops open. "You." Pure joy floods her face like sunlight falling through storm clouds, and she runs up to me, laying hands on either side of my face as she gazes deeply into my eyes. "There you are. ~ Suzanna J. Linton

Why can't I have my own life?! ~ Suzanna J. Linton

We've measured the wingspan at twenty-five feet," the crime tech concluded.
"Well, that's no scissor-tailed flycatcher," Shane scoffed. "What could they possibly belong to?"
Ramon shrugged. "Your guess is as good as mine. Nothin' natural that size lives around here, that's for sure. ~ Tabi Slick

When I'm gone, time won't change. It will pass the way it always has. I've seen it happen. People always move on. You will find your mate. You will move on then I'll be nothing but a memory, but I will never forget you. I will always love you for you have drawn emotions in me no other has in two thousand years. I will live with the memory of you in my heart because nothing can erase you from within me. You have forever changed me. You've taught me what it's like to truly love. ~ J.L. Sheppard

Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't live without you. It's a lose-lose situation. ~ Yannis Karatsioris

Never stray from your own kind, Jessen," my mother would say, "or you could end up like Princess Morga, a slave and outcast to be abhorred."

The problem was, I'd never been a very obedient daughter. Never the one to do exactly as I was told. And fairy tales have no meaning when the stars align and Fortune spins her wheel, weaving her own story for your heart. ~ Juliette Cross

Before we go on from here, I just want to say," he paused and took a step closer to me and reached his hand out to my heart. "What I should have said back on the plane is I know you're real." His eyes narrowed, "I'll always fight for you, Lexi, in my own way. ~ S.G. Holster

Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway. ~ Adele Rose

I can't let it happen. I can't risk it. I have to protect you, and I will. With every breath in me, I will. ~ J.L. Sheppard

With every step, I cursed the person who had ever invented the saying: "Speak of the devil". Clearly, they had no sympathy for me! ~ Adele Rose

I am a murderer. I simply have not yet murdered. But I will, given time. The good in me is draining away into the dark hole in my center.

My soul is broken. I am broken.

I am my father's son. ~ Paul S. Kemp

Do I seem like the white-picket-fence sort of girl to you, Carl?" "No, you seem like the blood-soaked-walls kind of girl to me. ~ Vicki Pettersson

None of us like each other, but one thing is for sure, we all hate you. ~ RoChe Montoya

Is there a club for bitchiness management, like Alcoholics Anonymous? Because, seriously, I think you should visit it. ~ Alexandra Engellmann

We are all looking for someone to save us. ~ Cynthia D. Witherspoon

In her previous life, Aliya had read somewhere that technology should never be allowed to outrun morality. Otherwise, the clock will strike Armageddon, and both God and the Devil will turn tail and run. ~ Lina J. Potter

A bunker, truck, trolls, all the same, a hard target. ~ Tom Cook

My love ... you were insolent to a dragon? Please tell me that I misheard you just now. ~ Aida Jacobs

We fell in love with that little peep-show projection on the inside of an iris, pictures that amount to nothing more than the thirsty moon over a spot of bloody ground. Those weren't the nothings we restless sleepwalkers knew, no place no home no song. So we heard her and we followed until she went where we couldn't follow.

She went down beyond the mountains and disappeared between the crease of sky and land, like a great eyelid folding shut. No one knows what happened out in the Black Hills, but I imagine she lies buried in a rusty coffin under the stars. And on nights when the desert crickets sing her tune, they say one day she will rise again. On that day, there is no telling the kind of vengeance she'll demand of us. Fair is fair.

They say when she fell from Heaven she wore a crown of jagged stars that slit the skies throat. They say she loved them all, in the secret corners of their shallow sleep. Strangers, at the last. They say a lot of things. They're all lies. Everything is already written. ~ James Curcio

To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy. ~ T.A. Miles

How else do I describe what I see…what I feel? When I look at a plant, I do not see a green object. I see Life. I see energy. I see a will to exist like no other. When I see an animal, I see more than fur and bone and blood. I see Love. Love is all around us. And in us. And through us. Love is us. It is everywhere. I see it. I feel it. I hear it. I only wish all of you could, too. If you could experience what I do every moment of every day, there would be no anger, no hate, no killing. I want to share what I know with the entire universe, but my words fall on deaf ears. People go right on fighting and hating and killing. And there is nothing I can do. ~ Simon Skiles

I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I'd never recover. ~ Ransom Riggs

She tapped her chest. "No, I'm not a freak, okay, so could you stop pressuring me."
Rafael muttered something under his breath, throwing up his hands in surrender. "So what am I? What's Karhl, Jayani, my brother, and all the BaSatai? Are we all freaks? Just
because this human has some kind of fascination with labeling you, you believe in it. Be your own person, Armani, not what someone else says you are. ~ Suzan Battah

Georgia's skin buzzed as she approached the heavy wooden doors. She swallowed hard. She didn't put much stock in church. Church was a place people went, a story people told. Most of the time, those stories didn't impress her much.
Faith, however, was another matter. Faith of any creed was sacred. Faith of every kind had power.
St. Jude was chock-full of faith. ~ Laura Oliva

technology should never be allowed to outrun morality. ~ Lina J. Potter