#fantasy

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy. ↗

— Mo Yan

#tragedy #beauty

Everything changed for Simon Falke the first time he fell through the fire. ↗

— Sam Whitehouse

#change

You don't love someone because they're a dream of perfection. You love them because of the way they meet their challenges, how they struggle to overcome. You love them because together, you bring out the best in each other. ↗

— Lani Wendt Young

#fantasy-romance #samoa #telesa-the-covenant-keeper #young-adult #dreams

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water. ↗

— S.M. Wheeler

#fantasy #kraken #change

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. ↗

— Garth Nix

#fantasy #fear #courage

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity. ↗

— Garth Nix

#fantasy #identity #courage

Why all this death? You might as easily ask ‘Why all this life?’. ↗

— Daniel McHugh

#fantasy #magic #warfare #wizards #death

My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such. ↗

— Erica Dakin

#fantasy #half-elves #prostitution #rin #romance

Azel was an aficionado in killing and in chocolate cake. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#chocolate #death #fantasy #killing #scifi

I like big books and I cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny That when a kid walks in with The Name of the Wind Like a hardbound brick of win. Story bling. Wanna swipe that thing Cause you see that boy is speeding Right through the book he’s reading. I’m hooked and I can’t stop pleading. Wanna curl up with that for ages, All thousand pages. Reviewers tried to warn me. But with that plot you hooked Me like Bradley. Ooh, crack that fat spine. You know I wanna make you mine. This book is stella ’cause it ain’t some quick novella. ↗

— Jim C. Hines

#fantasy #tome #age