#fantasy

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

"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"

"I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us."

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."

"Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!"

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

"Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things."

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

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

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

"In every journey comes a moment... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are... and who you want to be."

"There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on."

"Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared."

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

"Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it."

"There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up."

"We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into the dark unknown that we cannot explain with hard evidence, that is when we trade understanding for belief. At best, we make an educated guess. At worst, we make blind leaps of faith."

"May your feet ever walk in the light of two suns... and may the moonshadow never fall on you..."

"Why is he scared of the dark?"I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. "Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is"."