#fantasy

In time, all will be well - for all of us." "You sound as if you truly believe that it will." "Why shouldn't I? For Arman has given us the end of the story, has he not? Shamayim will be a wonderful home, even if this one remains dark. ↗

— Jill Williamson

#heaven #home

We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#horses

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#inspirational #life #reincarnation #experience

I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#husband

Seductive pull of the forest, an open canvas for trouble. ↗

— Karsten Knight

#fantasy-fiction

Focus on what's ahead. Use what is behind. ↗

— Donita K. Paul

#fantasy #wisdom #experience

Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fantasy-fiction #gollum #lord-of-the-rings #fantasy-fiction

But I couldn’t leave Hunter alone in the house, and I would’ve felt terrible if I’d asked Eric to go out in the woods by himself, even though I knew he wouldn’t think anything about it. In fact, probably he’d have sent Pam. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#pam #sookie-stackhouse #urban-fantasy #vampires #family

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#family

The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#freedom