You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.

Rupert: “… At this rate, somebody is bound to upset the Warlock once too often, and we’ll end up with a Court full of bemused looking toads.””He wouldn’t dare use his magic here,” said the...

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl–there isn’t one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Wartet!”, rief Elizabeth und lief dem Captain nach. “Und wer bringt mich an Land? Der Kodex der Bruderschaft besagt …” Captain Barbossa fuhr herum und spie ihr die Worte förmlich ins Gesicht: “Erstens: Eure Rückkehr...

That’s where the deceased chose to reside and that is where he will be placed.” Kekaju and the Hidden Swamp

And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang’s sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case’s sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His...

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children….

The minute grains of sand slipped silently down the curved hourglass, no matter how many times the people of Earth willed them not to. Time, fate and the actions of others were out of their...

I do like fantasy films.

He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered…

When you fake emotion for a living, when you make your money providing fantasies for other people, tuning into their worlds and indulging them, you don’t invite someone into your world very easily.

Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn’t get to live it very often.

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, “Journey of the Chosen”.

The flames of the fire leapt up and surrounded her, consuming her, becoming her. Heat filled and flushed her, breaking the bottle and she soared up and up. She came to stand in a sun’s...

I’d run. But maybe you can’t run. Think of that, too.’ His yellow eyes seemed to look inward, and he sounded tired. ‘Sometimes you can’t run.

There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.

He felt that he had always been there, among the apple trees, watching for the woman in the tower to come to her window. Seasons may have passed, years may have grown green on the...

It’s easy to remember, because dating rhymes with mating, and they’re almost the same […] So your mom thinks we’re ma– Uh, dating?

He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent.

I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid I’ll never get a chance to live!

I’m Detective Piper of the Fairyland Metro Police, and I’ve been called in to investigate the incident of the missing frog prince…

She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.

Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world...

Miraculously, I keep it together, although I would love to just slap the stupid out of them.

Oh. Now you are not so afraid, then?”Kitty opened her mouth, indignant. “I was not afraid before! I was… shocked. How many times do you see your orphanage roommate be able to turn someone into...

La verdad es que no nos gustan los nombres. Cuando le pones nombre a algo, le quitas parte de su poder. Se vuelve algo conocido. Nos han llamado muchísimas cosas: los buenos vecinos, los seres...

Tell them the Night Angel walks. Tell them Justice is come.

There’s no other possible explanation!” -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.

There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what...

I actually cook and eat real food, too.No roast Hansel, no grilled Gretel…I promise.”–Angela from Angela’s Coven #covenbooks

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

I will not miss him.” But her eyes told the real story.

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

And the more he gazed at her, the more he felt a twinge of something he couldn’t quite describe, an unknown surge that bubbled inside him from the first moment he’d caught sight of her,...

The warm days of Firestreak are usually good for travellers in the world of Amarillia.

Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that’s better than the real one.

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually...

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

We must kill the guard before we can enter the palace.

Teach them that rainbows appear after a storm to remind them that light begins and ends with all colors.

Sometimes everything you know in the world turns out to be a lie. But at the end of the day the lie isn’t what matters, it’s what you do after you tell it. If you...

There’s something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic – starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.

La paura ha tutto un altro sapore quando la si vive dal vero, Meggie, e giocare all’eroe non era così divertente come mi ero immaginato.

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn’t melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena’s chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.

Look at me!” he would shout as he ran laughing through the halls of Storm’s End. “Look at me, I’m a dragon,” or “Look at me, I’m a wizard,” or “Look at me, look at...