#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]

[ardent-reflections]

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

Anais Nin

[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

[slingtv]

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

- The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

[c-oldasice]

the poppy war

[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)

[csdarkfantasy]

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

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

[bertie987]

'Perhaps the wisdom of birds resides, not in the individual, but in the flock, the congregation.' - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

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[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.

[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

[casser-starkling]

“What good is it to wear a crown? The gods mock the prayers of kings and cowherds alike.”

A Game of Thrones, (George R. R. Martin, 1996)

[arista-essendon]

This tree had roots no one could see

-Michael J Sullivan

[wwwdotfollowmejunebug]

"It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows."

Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic (read Aug-Dec '22)