#fantasy

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#insight #anger

Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint ↗

— Brent Weeks

#fantasy #art

there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea. ↗

— Carolyn Turgeon

#beauty

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#fantasy-genre #ideas #inspiration #popularity #self-deprication

We live in a world full of people who are satisfied with pretending to be someone they are not. ↗

— Tommy Tran

#fantasy #inspirational #life #love #people

There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#cons #fantasy #fiction #meet #overlap

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair. ↗

— Faith Hunter

#jane-yellowrock #paranormal-romance #skinwalker #urban-fantasy #faith

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