Fiction Fantasy 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

Isn't it amazing?" I asked. "How the ocean bows to the moon."
"Some people believe that it is the lure of the moon that compels the ocean's waves to swell. I believe that it's the ocean's dance that entices the moon's rays to shine upon it, ~ Nicole Gulla

Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina. ~ Karl Schroeder

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside. ~ Terry Pratchett

What if we go on, to only more pain and despair?" "Then it is not the end. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Burlic screamed. He threw back his head and roared a single furious word into the night: "Waeccan." The name erupted from him in a savage wail that rasped at his throat, over and over until he could shout no more.
His howls echoed along the valley. In the village, the other hunters heard and exchanged glances, shook their heads and said nothing. The women clutched their talismans, told the children to go inside. They had tried to help, but there was nothing they could do for Burlic now. ~ Mikey Campling

The difference between science fiction and fantasy ... is simply this: science fiction has rivets and fantasy has trees. ~ Orson Scott Card

You think I could meet the most amazing person and not know how I could see her again? ~ Nicole Gulla

Love is when you'd rather see someone one last time and die, than never see their face again. ~ Bryan Butvidas

Well of course people cross genres all the time. You could have something called science-fiction-fantasy. Some galaxy far, far away and in another time with spaceships, but also dragons. And there's no rule that says you can't do that. ~ Margaret Atwood

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy. ~ Gail Carriger

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

Like a simple wildflower, standing strong through rain, wind and hail, love, finally, had its way, and it was content. ~ Ella Rose Carlos

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

My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don't think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice ~ Catrina Burgess

We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It's indestructible – it can never be broken. The thread is the key item that links us together. We understand each other. ~ Erica Sehyun Song

Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are ~ Catrina Burgess

Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem. ~ Michio Kaku

From my Facebook Page: You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of ~ Mary R. Woldering

I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long. ~ Erica Sehyun Song

This is our struggle: to re-bury the coal and slow the flow of petroleum from the earth," she counted them off from pinky to thumb on one hand, "To teach the farming way that cleans the soil and enriches the land. To bring the lore of machines run by energy of grass and waters and sun and wind. To place the love of silence and darkness again beside the love of noise and light. And to cause humans to greatly slow their breeding and breeding and breeding and breeding. This is our struggle. ~ Robert Stikmanz

You shouldn't be in here! ~ Evelyn Winters

I don't think I understand that," Meg insisted. "How can you lust yourself into oblivion. "
"Oh, easily," Ekaterina answered. "The lust is for things, possessions. The weapon turns on the nature of possessions, the fact that every possession you own consumes a part of you. Tools, instruments, if they are more than conceits, these things do not defy the rule but they are exceptional enough they don't activate the weapon.
Consequently, the mission of these alleged scientists is to create generalized lust, a frenzied lust for things unconnected to any sense of utility. ~ Robert Stikmanz

Jack...why is there a dragon in our backyard? ~ Kyoko M.

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

There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other. ~ Taisha DeAza

The king is dead. Long live the queen. ~ Marie Lu

My one true love remains my self ... I dump myself occasionally to keep it interesting ~ Cassandra Clare

There is...a golden alpine field within each of you, a place where you are bathed in approval, not because of anything particular you have done, but simply because of your own sacred nature. If you had a president who could show you the route to that place, what a difference it would make in your lives, and in the culture of the world! ~ Roland Merullo

He would never forget her. The distance he forced had done nothing to soothe his aching soul. It had done nothing to diminish that she was his. He tried to deny it at first, thinking it nothing more than a cosmic mistake, but after a month without a glimpse of her, there was no question.
She belonged to him. ~ J.L. Sheppard

Chaotic Of Echoes The Lands Darkest Hours Of Lions
Architect the Garlots of War The Precognitions ~ Philippa Ballantine

Next time when I dive into the territory that I had lived next to, where my sister grew up, I know what to expect. I would be ready. I would be prepared. ~ Erica Sehyun Song

Let's go inside before a Sector-hopping horde of hungry flervers smells your fear and zeroes in on us from across the galaxy."
"Don't make fun of me."
I put my hand over my heart. "I would never."
Tess's scowl didn't fool me. The humor in her eyes told the real story. "They'll eat you first. More muscle."
"If it keeps you alive, I'm happy to sacrifice my biceps. ~ Amanda Bouchet

Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can't MANHANDLE THEM! ~ Erica Sehyun Song

If he slept, he dreamt of the woman with the icy white irises. She exploded planes, swallowed oceans and crumpled skies
in her palm in his dreams. Sometimes she and the green-eyed girl were one. At other times, the green-eyed girl was alone, a gaping hole where her heart should have been. At all times he could hear the woman's cold, low laughter. It swept across his consciousness like a hailstorm.
When he woke up, he thought he was going mad. ~ Sukanya Venkatraghavan

All proper libraries include a trace of everlasting magic. ~ Erin Forbes

Every predator is a prey. ~ Atri Kundu

Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to. ~ Jason Ellis

In our distant future, a tale of things past... (from Mars Rising) ~ Mark David Major

It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. ~ Mike Lee

It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak. ~ Anne McCaffrey

He runs something called the Celestial People's Republic, just north of here. What he tells his subjects is that we can turn Hell into Heaven by collectivizing it. ~ Janet E. Morris

Now that I had run out of steam I realized I was in Ronan's room, at
night. He was standing there in a pair of boxers and nothing else. Gulp. Maybe I
shouldn't be too hasty to throw away this betrothal. Ew. Great, Grazi, why not just drool
all over the boy in his underwear after you pretty much told him you wanted nothing to
do with him? I'm such a freak.
"Um, I'll see you tomorrow." I turned around and left as quickly as I had come in. ~ C.D. Gorri

Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen. ~ Ray Bradbury

Do you mean that Zane is some kind of bird magnet? ~ C.J. Milbrandt

Your mind is powerful, so powerful it can call a person from across the state. ~ Flory Garcia

The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction. ~ T.L. Rese

Secret societies ... like the Skulls or the Free Masons?"
"What do you know about them?" he asked, feeling me out.
"Limited. I've seen a couple of movies with Johnny Depp and Paul Walker a while back. They're societies that have high influence over things like the American and foreign governments. ~ Nicole Gulla

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

Why women don't have facial hair. God doesn't cover up anything that looks beautiful. ~ Tony Sakalauskas

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror. ~ Hal Duncan

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

I couldn't shake Zander's beady red eyes or the noise of his pounding wings behind us. His hot breath and foul stench reached for us, but couldn't catch us as we soared above liquid green fields in the Realm Beyond. ~ Dianne Bright

"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly."
"really?" said Sarge. "what flavor? ~ John Connolly

The deeds of the light do just as much damage as the deeds of the dark.
From Lucifer's Ladder (God of the Fallen: Book One) ~ W.D. Frank

Neither in the deepest ocean
Nor in the perpetual snow
Heaven was on earth that day
For some reason we are yet to know ~ Sameer Kumar

He never wanted to be king, and it was that very trait that made him a great king. It was the characteristic comprising all extraordinary leaders. ~ Ella Rose Carlos

I was pregnable once," Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn't roll properly, couldn't hop properly, couldn't romp or flop properly. There were the cravings for roasted cabbage - she loathed cabbage, with its leaves and growing in rows. And labor! Merill passed out during childbirth. She'd endured burns, lacerations, rips, serrated teeth, nails, hooks and a trove of unmentionable harm-inflictors. Labor trounced them all and wriggled gleefully in the spray of blood and gore. "Being pregnable is no good. No good at all. Like growing a bitter melon in your belly. ~ Darrell Drake

My thoughts of you never do you justice. ~ Nicole Gulla

You will see what you missed if you turn around. ~ Han Soo Lee

The with forbidden the death of warriors ~ Laurence Yep

There is no getting away from the past or from one's destiny. ~ Laxmi Hariharan

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

Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light. ~ Iva Kenaz

THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!"
Polybotes frowned, obviously confused that he was being told off by a statue. "What are you?" he growled. "Shut up!"
He pushed the statue over and turned back to Percy.
"Now I'm MAD!" Terminus shrieked. "I'm strangling you. Feel that? Those are my hands around your neck, you big bully. Get over here! I'm going to head-butt you so hard
~ Rick Riordan

Dust is not a constant. There's not a fixed quantity that has always been the same. Conscious beings make Dust - they renew it all the time, by thinking and feeling and reflecting, by gaining wisdom and passing it on. And if you help everyone else in your worlds to do that, by helping them to learn and understand about themselves and each other and the way everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and patient instead of hasty, and cheerful instead of surly, and above all how to keep their minds open and free and curious ... Then they will renew enough to replace what is lost through one window. So there could be one left open. ~ Philip Pullman

Everything is About To Change. ~ Chris Mentillo

Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps. ~ Sam Whitehouse

A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the round-the-clock coverage on television, but he had no way of connecting with those who shared his views. Nor was there a quick, readily available tool for an ordinary citizen to gather information on his own. In 1960, communication was a one-way street, and information was fundamentally inaccessible. The whole idea of summoning up data or reaching thousands of individuals with the touch of a finger was a science-fiction fantasy. ~ Jeff Greenfield

You killed me." My voice was unsteady.

He held me close again. "I brought you back."

"Please tell me we only have to do that once."

He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke ~ Catrina Burgess

I felt like I was suffocating, like my future and all my happiness were gone. I've never felt that before, Ava. I can't let you go. ~ Nicole Gulla

As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on. ~ Virginia McKevitt

She snorted in amusement at my remark. "When are the guards going to start to notice?"
Keith peered into the distance. "Starting now, ~ Erica Sehyun Song

He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening sun setting behind the clouds. ~ Erica Sehyun Song

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

They were full of suspicion and wonder, which I had grown to recognize as two very dangerous things. ~ Erin Forbes

The surge of his ardour swept through him in climatic release, filling her womb with his final, mortal sowing. ~ Georgina Anne Taylor

Collin! What a gorgeous name. Then again his name could have been Cracker Jack and I would have thought it was just as wonderful. ~ Nicole Gulla

Man leave the past in the past. That's where it belongs. The trouble with addicts is that they carry bad memories around with them - like old luggage. And in that luggage that's where they carry their blueprint for living. You got to decide what's worth keeping, and then set the rest of it on the curb for the garbage.
-Joseph ~ Valjeanne Jeffers

A snake's carcass sprawled across a third of the road. It was so mangled she couldn't tell head from tail. Pieces of its shredded skin lifted and drifted in the aftermath of the car's passing. ~ Angela Panayotopulos

I'd rather be a beggar than be with the wrong king - not the queen of slaves, but the slave of bravery. I lay me on rocks, cover me with the darkness of the nights - not the king's poisonous soft duvets that won't let me meet I at dawn. ~ Maria I.I.A.

My death granted immortality.
With one look, I knew he'd be my undoing ... Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy ~ Sarah J. Pepper

...every time someone speaks a faith statement, it gives Heaven
more energy. One ingredient to answered prayers is faith. Heaven runs on that power! ~ Sunshine Rodgers

Science Non Fiction/ Fantasy = Future ~ Deyth Banger

You fill my soul with hope and love.
Together, we will remain through the heavens above.
One soul, together. For always and forever ... ~ A.R. Von

All fiction is autobiographical fantasy. ~ James Joyce

From: The Crown of Telus
She opened her eyes, saw the crown sitting on her bedside table, and wished that it was all a dream. The crown of Trist was nothing special. It had no gemstones, no gold or silver filigree; instead it was simple, a metal circlet with four points and some inlay around a scratched and dented band.
"It's a working man's crown," she remembered her father holding the symbol of power out to her when she younger. "See the inlay? Three moons, one for each of our gods, over an oak which represents the mighty forests of the north, a shock of wheat for the Plainsmen to the south, a ship for the Gheltes to the west, and a hashap flower for the spice in the east. Nothing more. We don't need anymore."
Tears welled in her eyes. A working man's crown. Nothing fancy or bejeweled, a symbol of the power that guides the land and cares for its people.
This was going to be the first day she wore it as queen. ~ William Laws

Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable. ~ Walter Wangerin

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me ~ Carlyle Labuschagne

There was a definite pull to him and in that moment I had to know why. ~ Nicole Gulla

Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it.
The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and another as genre vanishes with the distinction.
Every readable novel can give true pleasure. Every novel read by choice is read because it gives true pleasure.
Literature consists of many genres, including mystery, science fiction, fantasy, naturalism, realism, magical realism, graphic, erotic, experimental, psychological, social, political, historical, bildungsroman, romance, western, army life, young adult, thriller, etc., etc…. and the proliferating cross-species and subgenres such as erotic Regency, noir police procedural, or historical thriller with zombies.
Some of these categories are descriptive, some are maintained largely as marketing devices. Some are old, some new, some ephemeral.
Genres exist, forms and types and kinds of fiction exist and need to be understood: but no genre is inherently, categorically superior or inferior.

(Hypothesis on Literature vs. Genre) ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The Assassin the midst the deadly druid
Fury the shattering ~ Thomas E. Sniegoski

As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit
subliterature. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people. ~ Erica Sehyun Song

The clouds let loose, as if God had tightened His fist around them and squeezed. ~ J.F. Rogers

In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans. ~ Will Shetterly

I wrapped my arms around my body, pushing away my doubts and indecision for just a moment, and looked out toward the cemetery. "Whatever it takes," I vowed. And as I said the words, I felt a chill run across my neck and a ghostly touch slide down my cheek ~ Catrina Burgess

The Sword the burning decieved rising the science fiction the betrayed the spy the souls ~ Moira Young

I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to know that very few had ever taken a chance on my work. I certainly won't last forever, but I'd love to think that my imagination will continue to surface in the minds of others. ~ Eric Diehl