#fantasy

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brain #brain cells #cells #enables #end

What kind of hellish punishment does Lev have planned if he needs the females’ crazy magic moon water? Nothing Talon has ever heard of but the gryphon is a recluse and stories about him keep children from sneaking out alone; a terribly convoluted mixture of the rogue army attack on his eyrie, death, and the name Lev, one of the few survivors mean enough to live through it. ↗

— Elizabeth Munro

#fantasy #griffon #gryphon #shifter #death

If rules make a framework for the mind to climb about in, why should the mind not climb right out? ↗

— Mike Ashley

#inspirational #interesting #inspirational

Even if that is the truth,” Derkein said, “what does it have to do with my father suddenly thinking he can raise the dead? ↗

— Alecia Stone

#magic #teen-fiction #young-adult-fantasy #teen

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#fantasy #rose-hathaway #vampire #young-adult #crazy

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #goodness #safety #security #security

I sighed. I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want it to be all sexy, too. And, trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy. I mean, sure, their glamours can be pretty hot, but the dry-as-bone corpse bodies shimmering underneath? Nothing attractive there. ↗

— Kiersten White

#ya-urban-fantasy #young-adult-fantasy #young-adult-lurban-fantasy #zombies

I love the word 'fantasy'... but I love it for the almost infinite room it gives an author to play: an infinite playroom, of a sort, in which the only boundaries are those of the imagination. I do not love it for the idea of commercial fantasy. Commercial fantasy, for good or for ill, tends to drag itself through already existing furrows, furrows dug by J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert E. Howard, leaving a world of stories behind it, excluding so much. There was so much fine fiction, fiction allowing free reign to the imagination of the author, beyond the shelves of genre. That was what we wanted to read. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fantasy #writing #imagination

Despite their exhaustion and worries, Miner and Ennek made love that night, tracing fingers and tongues over one another's marks and scars. Their bodies were like books, Ennek thought, and their stories could be read inch by inch. He hoped fervently for happy endings. ↗

— Kim Fielding

#fantasy-romance #gay #love #m-m-romance #romance

Success=Assinchair ↗

— Judy Griffith Gill

#fantasy-romance #futuristic-romance #love #men-and-women-in-love #pnw-settings