#fantasy

"Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of war,The voice of one who went before,But most of all the mirror's gaze,Which counts us out our numbered days."

"It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed."

"So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman"

"She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you"with "May I take your order?"

"there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don't know and don't know they don't know; those who don't know and do know they don't know; and those who know and know how much they still don't know."

"The brightest light casts the darkest shadow."

"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."

"He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face."

"Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity."

"Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night."

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."

"Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life"

"It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive."

"May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave."

"I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria."

"I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world."

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."

"Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.” The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood."

"The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more."She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists."

"I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q."