#fantasy

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

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

"If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract...-- Rhett"

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

"The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see."

"Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be."

"if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones."

"So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore."

"The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library."

"The brightest light casts the darkest shadow."

"I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."She raised an eyebrow."Sharp as hell,"Lightsong said, "but lacking a point."

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

"I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves."

"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."

"Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions."

"Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd."

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

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

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