#fantasy

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#dead #fantasy #fiction #hard #i

I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not what we want but what needs to be done. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#life

You will find yourself, as he did. But that will not mean it is easy. There are few things easy in life that are worth the doing. ↗

— Mette Ivie Harrison

#fantasy #princess #life

The only constant in this reality is change... ↗

— Brian Fatah Steele

#urban-fantasy #change

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose above the great mountainous island of Tremalking. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#age

Who upholds the gorsedd if not You? Who counts the ages of the world if not You? Who commands the Wheel of Heaven if not You? Who quickens life in the womb if not You? Therefore, God of All Virtue and Power, sain us and shield us with Your Swift Sure Hand. ↗

— Stephen R. Lawhead

#religous #age

Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it impressed me too. Maybe wizard school wasn’t going to be as lame as I had thought. “All of your schedules and assignments will be done on these,” Marilynn explained. “The whole school is on these. We’ve had them for awhile now. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#coming-of-age #digital-textbook #e-books #ebooks #fairy-tales

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#fiction #inspirational #age

Not as much as it bothers me that you just grabbed me without even trying to warn me first. If you’re trying to undo ages of prejudice, maybe you should start by acting civil. ↗

— Jennifer Silverwood

#qeya #sci-fi #ya-novella #age

When I was her age," Munro said to Eilidh, "I was chasing frogs." Oron Chuckled. "When I was your age, I was chasing frogs. Come. We have things to discuss. ↗

— India Drummond

#fantasy #age