#fantasy

Overestimate the small. ↗

— T. William Watts

#inspiration #small #inspirational

When I grow up, maybe I will be the first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spend all my day doing everything my way. Maybe I will be in a world of my own I just hope not alone. I just know that whatever I do I will never, ever forget about you. ↗

— Oliver Neubert

#avid-reader #coming-of-age #fable #female-protagonist #life-skills

The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#historical-fiction #humor #life

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #rebellious #young-adult

The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story. ↗

— Tom Shippey

#fiction #tolkien #tom-shippey #writing #freedom

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#fantasy #loves #me #mind #nobody

In fantasy the world is always adapting to you, in reality you are always adapting to the world. That is the only difference. ↗

— girl

#change #fantasy #reality #the-world #change

Change your mind and change your whole life experience. ↗

— C.G. Rousing

#abraham-hicks #fantasy #gate #jerry-and-esther-hicks #law-of-attraction

You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#fiction #experience

I can't stop thinking about dying the way humans do it. Imagine! If at any moment, you could just stop existing. How different everything would be.." They don't stop existing Lenia said...They have souls that live forever. Even knowing that, they fight so hard to stay alive. I think it's so beautiful. Imagine: being that fragile, that permanent. ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#beauty