#fantasy

Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is justice... and justice is the spirit of God. ↗

— J.C. Marino

#fantasy #philosophical #men

Men and women who had worn suits for decades traded punches powerful enough to crush elephant skulls, dodged and deflected attacks too fast for the eye to follow, and died suddenly, often before the crowd registered the killing blow. Victors and dead men were separated by a blink of the eye. ↗

— Zachary Jernigan

#fantasy #men

Often, beyond the next turning, footfalls of a herd galloping across stone were heard, or further in the distance, with reassuring grunts, a wild boar could be seen, trotting with steady stride along the edge of the road with her sow and a whole procession of young in tow. And then one's heart beat faster upon advancing a little into the subtle light: one might have said that the path had suddenly become wild, thick with grass, its dark paving-slabs engulfed by nettles, blackthorn and sloe, so that it mingled up time past rather than crossing country-side, and perhaps it was going to issue forth, in the chiaroscuro of thicket smelling of moistened down and fresh grass, into one of those glades where animals spoke to men. ↗

— Julien Gracq

#forest #path #road #time #men

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#eowyn #fantasy #healing #return-of-the-king #courage

Every great day has a story and a song! ↗

— Faith Reese Martin

#courage #fantasy #friendship #historical-fiction #lost-colony

Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting. ↗

— Andrzej Sapkowski

#fantasy #fiction #the-witcher #death

So I’m figuring this is death. The little air left in the cockpit is toxic with marthenine, and I can only wonder how much of it I have breathed in. Is my throat becoming raw hamburger? My lungs, oatmeal? ↗

— Kea Alwang

#kea-alwang #science-fiction #teen #treehugger #ya

All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against the light, refuse to submit to its authority, and it won’t be long before they’ll use some form of force, usually a weapon and the threat of death or injury, to compel you to comply. ↗

— S. Evan Townsend

#government #urban-fantasy #death

A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is -Ned Stark- ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#death

With him I couldn’t be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before. ↗

— Carlyle Labuschagne

#science-fiction #urban-fantasy #science