Top Fantasy Fiction Quotes

Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pain? Is that the secret of great art, both human and Melnibonen?

With a heart of furious fanciesWhereof I am commander:With a burning spear,And a horse of air,To the wilderness I wander...

Between dainty bites, she told Amie, 'Oh, you simply are as darling a creature as Henry described! I had no idea of your being so grown up! Henry, she is positively frazzleging!' Amie deepened her smi...

Names are for those who do not know themselves." Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

Good fantasy fiction: ... explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters' individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

For what was burned at the stakes beyond the fires did endure

An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to...

There is nothing more important in life than perception, because you shape your life through it. It is like a looking glass, you look and you perceive things. You perceive a reality. You make it real...

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Creating is like the oxygen in my air.

And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We...

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

With every fall of the sun and rise of the moon, I can hear it. The Prophecy. It echoes through the halls of time. It is written on the surface of every star. Even the sun and moon cannot withhold the...

Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety?

It takes both sides to build a bridge.

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

Can you see the power emotion has to distort out outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?

You are a curse in my life!

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.