#fantasy quotes

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

[lovequotesandcoffee]

This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.

Brandon Sanderson, Rhythm of War.

[wouldiweresteadfastasthouart]

[velvet4510]

Every woman under the sun can relate to Éowyn’s statement that her greatest fear is a cage.

[incorrectfantasyquotes]

Simms: You can't just stab him!

Fetch: You would understand if you heard what he said to me.

Simms: What did he say to you?

Fetch: "what you gonna do? Stab me?"

[ardent-reflections]

I am a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings. Ecstasies do not occur often enough.

Anais Nin

[slingtv]

“Sometimes people only seem determined upon one course because they have been offered no other options.”

- The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

[ksenia-kyel]

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because the tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." - Neil Gaiman, Coraline

[c-oldasice]

the poppy war

[47hourclock]

People look at me as though I should know them, and I do know them in the dream, and always the fire draws me nearer, though I am awake—.

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

In my mind are all the tides, their seasons, their ebbs and their flows. In my mind are all the halls, the endless procession of them, the intricate pathways. When this world becomes too much for me, when I grow tired of the noise and the dirt and the people, I close my eyes and I name a particular vestibule to myself; then I name a hall.

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

[lovequotesandcoffee]

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension.

[wouldiweresteadfastasthouart]

"She had been told that men must not look into a dragon's eyes, but that was nothing to do with her." is one of the hardest lines in the history of fiction.

[heyyoitsbooks]

The means by which we achieve victory are as important as the victory itself.

Brandon Sanderson, Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book #1)

[ashlevnicole]

"I hoped. And hope is a jagged knife. Hope pieces together dreams out of broken glass only for reality to come and smash them all over again. Hope is the cruelest punishment of them all."

-Royo from Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland

[csdarkfantasy]

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

—C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader