Quotes about dark-fantasy
Ashley Earley -
It’s too dangerous…I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to him. I wouldn’t be able to bare it. Forgiveness would be out of the question beyond my ability. I would never be able to forget that the boy I loved was hurt…or worse…because he came to this world. Because of me.
Sarah Brianne - Lucca
The things I want from you, darlin’, will give you nightmares, ones like you’ve never had before. A nightmare that will have you begging me not to wake you up.”--Lucca
Angelo Tsanatelis - Scarred
-Cheap? I could have bought a whole pig with that coin jester. -Exactly my Lord. And while some may eat a mule, no one can ride a pig.
Joanna Fay - Reunion
His gaze ran over her body again, resting on the deepest of the fracture lines in her shields. 'Come here.'Purple feathers fanned around Riana's sides. Sudden tears moistened her eyes at the unexpectedness of what Sier was offering. She sank against him, and his arms folded around her back. Her weight supported, Riana let herself float on the night and tucked her face into his neck. Sier's power closed around her in a violet wave, running into her halo, slipping though her opened shields.
Eleanor Keane -
Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear...Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail of breadcrumbs doesn’t lead to a safe place...I should know.”- Extract from The Blood Witching, copyright Eleanor Keane.
Yannis Karatsioris - The Book of the Forsaken
Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can't live with them, they can't live without you. It's a lose-lose situation.
Cari Silverwood - Nightmare Rising
Being born of the dreams and nightmares of humans, they weren’t truly faery or demon. The semantics of labels didn’t matter. There was just light, and there was dark, and neither of them belonged in this world.
Isis Sousa - Art of Isis Sousa & Guests: Fantasy Digital Painting Techniques & Video Lectures
In these times of Darkness, I keep dreaming of a better tomorrow, and praying my soul won't be corrupted." These are Gudrun's words and thoughts. She is living in a troubled world, where only the strong can be free.She is a Fantasy character you find on The Art of Isis Sousa & Guests!
Scarlett Amaris - Saurimonde III
Before the day there was only endless night. When the stars rained down from the skies, and giants and other unfathomable creatures roamed the land, there was a goddess who ruled over them all because she had been clever enough to figure out the secret of time and how to walk between worlds.
Hazel Butler - Bleizgeist
Without Bardawulf's pelt about me I felt naked before the crowds, yet I knew what I would invite if folk saw me wearing it. The whispers would become shouts, the shouts accusations, and finally cries of terror, and even if they did not whip me at the post or burn me for my gramarye, the fear would swell within their minds. Their thoughts would focus on naught but me. And I would find myself at the mercy of an onslaught of geiste from which even Lynae would be unable to defend me.
Hazel Butler - Bleizgeist
The same good folk who would burn me for a psychal now paid me to use my cursed gramarye to guard their sheep.
Anne Bishop -
It was Jaenelle's voice, but...She was medium height, slender, and fair-skinned. Her gold mane--not quite hair and not quite fur--was brushed up and back from her exotic face and didn't hide the delicately pointed ears. In the center of her forehead was a tiny, spiral horn. A narrow strip of gold fur traced her spine, ending in a small gold and white fawn tail that flicked over her bare buttocks. The legs were human and shapely, but changed below the calf. Instead of feet, she had dainty horse's
Auden Johnson - The Sciell
Those secrets residing in their hearts and minds held magnificent Energy. Humans were too inept to see it as anything but evil.
Brom - The Child Thief
Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
Shannon Eckrich - Haunting Lia
Every night when I watch you sleep, I breathe you in. Every time I make you smile, my heart beats a tad bit faster. You are the blood flowing through my veins. If I had to go back to the life I had before, I would go freaking insane.
A.K. Kuykendall - The Possession
He who writes is the martyr, seen through the eyes of the unassuming doll.
Derendrea - Valkyrie
Jason woke to a feeling of fear, borne from a dream that he couldn’t remember when waking. But as his mind focused, he found the dream right before him. The half-woman lay perfectly molded against his body, her wings draped down her back.
Geoffrey Thorne - Winter of the Wild Hunt
Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer
Jes Dory - Isle
What do you mean 'has to be?' and what are you smiling at?" I stopped contributing to this ridiculous dance. I grabbed the teapot and began to fill it with water in the sink. Suddenly I felt the slight weight of his body against my back and the corner of his mouth brushed against my ear. "How human you are," he whispered.
Jes Dory - Isle
My face flushed scarlet. I was a stranger in my own skin. I had ever felt this kind of anger in my life. Fort and confusion grew. Its sensation was an overwhelming concoction of hate. The only things I knew - the only things keeping me remotely calm- was the following litany.My name is Eleanora Ada Stone. I was moved from home to home for seventeen years. I am now living on this god-forsaken island in Maine. I was being kept from a world of secrets. I have abilities. I am not human. I do not kno
Jes Dory - Isle
What do you mean 'has to be?' and what are you smiling at?" I stopped contributing to this ridiculous dance. I grabbed the teapot and began to fill it with water in the sink.Suddenly I felt the slight weight go this body against my back and the corner of his mouth brushed adjacent my ear."How human you are," he whispered.
Jes Dory - Isle
Oh my," she said as though to herself. "The rumors are true, you have been kept in the dark.
S.L. Stacy - Relapse
Victoria was so wrong about me. I expected them to put me first, above everyone else.I am selfish. I am weak. I am bad.And I need Jasper. I need him like I need air to breathe. No—somehow, that cliché doesn’t seem quite right. He’s more like a shot of whiskey after a hard day. A burst of heroin in my burning veins.He is my drug. My ambrosia.I can’t live without him.
Sally Gardner - Tinder
It is enough to know, too much to see.
Andrew Cormier - The Great Deceiver
My name is one best whispered in terror in a dark corner.
Andrew Cormier - The Great Deceiver
With timid curiosity, I asked, “what do you mean the old bodies get reused?
Scarlett Amaris - Saurimonde II
My mother was the bringer of storms. The dark and the light. Death and rebirth. She was as dangerous as she was beautiful as she rode the lightning. Once a potent force of nature she had the nerve to look down on us from those lofty heights.
Tamara Rose Blodgett - The Reflective
Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.
Eve Masters - Close Friends
Into the darkness with the light of the moon beaming upon me. Bathing in the luminosity of it awakening the demon that is me!
D.J. LeMarr - The Worst Misery
You are mad, Malloreigh!” It is an odd thing to have madness call you mad. Makes you think for a moment that you are sane, but also makes you think that it is truly sane. My mind hurts. I stopped thinking. I painted.
Mark W. Boyer -
When lost in darkness he who lights the way, marks himself as easy prey.
Ashley Earley - The Darkest Light
I can feel that I'm in a dream, but I can't wake myself up.
Ashley Earley - The Darkest Light
And darkness will rule.
Cristina M. Sburlea - In Roman Times: Empires and Madness
Elijah: You are a dangerous woman.Valeria: You do not know the half of it, but I suppose you are not one to always dabble in safe waters either. So, do you still want to work with me?Elijah: It will be my pleasure.Valeria: Is there anything I need to know about you?Elijah: No!Valeria: That is a lie.Elijah: Is there anything I need to know about you?Valeria: No!Elijah: That is also a lie.Valeria, smiling: Then we are a pair of liars.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón -
I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.
Rob Shepherd -
Those monsters in your closets and under your beds? They are just as real as us. The difference is that we fear what we don't understand, while they understand exactly, what we fear.
B.B. Wynter - The Lament of Sky
All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.
Rob E. Boley -
I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.
A.F. Stewart - Killers and Demons II: They Return
I told you. I’ve been watching.” She twirled, her arms outstretched. “Watching, watching, watching.
T. Frohock - The Broken Road
Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.
Frances Hardinge - Cuckoo Song
I don’t know. How can you know? I…I’m a monster. When I’m hungry, I might do anything.""Oh no, of course I couldn’t possibly understand you." Violet’s shadowed face seemed to be wearing a grim and serious smile. "I know, you woke up one day and found out that you couldn’t be the person you remembered being, the little girl everybody expected you to be. You just weren’t her any more, and there was nothing you could do about it. So your family decided you were a monster and turned on you." Violet
Micheal Rivers - The Black Witch
She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.
Pamela K. Kinney -
Just tell yourself they're only stories. Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)
Keith Kekic - Chloe of the Night
Walk with this tomorrow night. If nothing happens, thendon’t come back. Forget about us, this place, but if you feel theNightwalker in you awaken, then return to where you belong.Return to me, and the streets will run red with blood.
Keith Kekic - Nightwalkers
These streets belong to us because we decided not to punch the time clock. We decided to see what and f*ck is going on out here when all those other people are going to sleep. So we walk from dusk until dawn and we rule.
Rob E. Boley - That Wicked Apple: Snow White & Even More Zombies
Magic is a naughty beast.
Rob E. Boley - That Risen Snow: Snow White & Zombies
Snow came back, but she didn't come back right.
Micheal Rivers - The Black Witch
So exquisitely perfect was the darkness of the heavens above that one would have difficulty believing it was a prison to the passengers and crew of The Black Witch.
Lee Morgan - Wooing the Echo
Would you teach me, Seth?’Seth smiled and leaned back in his seat. ‘You do realise, of course, that you have no idea what you ask of me?’ Seth replied after a moment.‘Of course,’ Christopher replied quietly. ‘Could you tell me?’‘No. That is the problem you see,’ Seth said. ‘Magic is something you can never prepare someone for. Magic will make you, Christopher. It will find all the secret empty places of longing in you and fill them more surely than any other love. And magic will break your heart
Scarlett Amaris - Saurimonde
There's a danger and a beauty to the moment which seems out of time. It pierces something deep inside of him, bypassing his rationale, and it touches his very core. In a sudden shock of illumination, and of knowing, he recognizes this woman is his destiny, and their fates are intertwined.
Melissa St. Hilaire - Saurimonde
The images start to darken and she feels another hunger well up in her, this one having to do with another kind of desire. The desire to feed, to possess, and the aggressive thrill of a predator capturing and killing its prey as it tears into unspoiled flesh. Its teeth ripping and rending and the satisfying coppery taste of blood. There is the ultimate moment of surrender of drinking away the life essence. The pinnacle of lust which mounts in the very last breath, when the light drains from the
Auden Johnson - No Vacancy
The rivers had been drained overnight and what was left were things no person should have to image let alone see. She had been smart enough to stay away. But, other humans— were curious. They saw and the image planted in their heads made them bait for the demons.When they extended their hands and offered them peace of mind, the humans accepted without hesitation.
Gemini Rising Rockin' Machine - a Dream or a Cold Hard Reality in Thirty-Six Parts
Open up your Mind Rockin' Minds to the Cold Hard Reality that is my Songs & Dreams.
T. M. Lakomy -
For what was burned at the stakes beyond the fires did endure
T. M. Lakomy -
There is nothing more important in life than perception, because you shape your life through it. It is like a looking glass, you look and you perceive things. You perceive a reality. You make it real and you live by it. It is all about your eyes, how you see it. And what you see, you create.
R. Murray Gilchrist - Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
When she had arranged her household affairs, she came to the library and bade me follow her. Then, with the mirror still swinging against her knees, she led me through the garden and the wilderness down to a misty wood. It being autumn, the trees were tinted gloriously in dusky bars of colouring. The rowan, with his amber leaves and scarlet berries, stood before the brown black-spotted sycamore; the silver beech flaunted his golden coins against my poverty; firs, green and fawn-hued, slumbered i
Lana Del Rey -
Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.
Destinee Hardwick - Wishing on Raining Stars
The first rule in the book of love is acceptance.
Destinee Hardwick - Wishing on Raining Stars
I didn't want to be the woman who gave herself over willingly to the first man to notice her. I didn't want to be the stupid girl in every novel who loved without question and entered relationships that didn't make sense.
A.K. Kuykendall - The Possession
Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be given? Only time will tell as the clock keeps tick, tick, ticking. Your god has arrived with enough hatred for y’all, with enough evil for the big and small, so come one, come all. I will shred your souls and place them in my satchel, call you a settler and make you my peddler. Come one, come all, come stand behind your god. I will lead you into the darkness of Earth's end. Come one, c
Brom - The Child Thief
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.
Brom - The Child Thief
Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth’s first children were driven into the shadows by flame and cold iron, by man’s insatiable need of conquest.
Angelo Tsanatelis - Book I
Death makes its own choices. Has reasoning an order has a taste…
T.P. Grish - Magick and Faith
There was balance, harsh and violent like the noxious air in a swamp. But balance, nonetheless. Then somewhere in the fickle mists of creation came humanity, clawing and afraid, grasping and ambitious. Enveloped in a dangerous world, these creatures lived as scavengers; afraid of the greater things of the world. They were beset by disease, lack of claws or fangs, and the lack of habitat to call their own. Lefeyhdie had not provided any particular prey or plant for them to eat. These fleshy, nake
T.P. Grish - Magick and Faith
Bah, he still saw the same stupidity. The image of the hanged man in the farming community of Yondern flashed through his mind. Now there was a war brewing between the Steelwielders and some foreign religion. More mindless loss over beliefs and mythology. But.. he could not deny the noble features in his companions. Although Perfidian was too blithe and Elaina too didactic, they had risked their life to do what was right. He did owe them his life. He could not deny the nobility he saw in many di
Red Tash - Troll Or Derby
I envisioned him tied in a chair, an iron arrow pointed at his brow. Ah, the power of positive thinking.
Gary Peeling -
Just then a familiar voiced spoke right in to Stephens’s ear which startled him as his eyes once again began slowly opening. “Don’t try to move or talk you two, not that you could if you wanted to anyway.” It was Bob inches away from his face and he sounded very different now, his voice was low and threatening and his eyes were unsmiling and cold. “Very soon you will be gone and there will be no trace of any of you here, or us for that matter.” He felt Bob go through his pockets until eventually
T.A. Miles - Blood Song
The spirit cannot exist in a sealed void. It will eventually devour itself or waste away.
Krista Alasti - Taming Shadows
Just shut up and talk. - Shella
Krista Alasti - Taming Shadows
Why would Dad call you? I mean, you have to admit that he would have been better off calling the local prison and asking them to send out one of the convicted killers to come find me. - Shella
Krista Alasti - Taming Shadows
You’re starting to look like you did before, and that’s not good because what you looked like was complete shit, so get up and go to bed so I can stop acting like your mother. I can already feel my balls starting to recede. And hey, does it look like I’m growing breasts? - Kye
Krista Alasti - Taming Shadows
I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran
Krista Alasti - Taming Shadows
Don’t be hating on my peacock. It’s just not right. - Kye
Krista Alasti - Taming Shadows
I’m sure all of that’s true. Especially the anal bit--Marshall’s always been an ass--but I don’t see how this is relevant, unless of course I’m mistaken, and you really are comparing me to a crumb that needs sweeping. - Shella
Ross Turner - Marcii
A friendship like theirs was hard to come by, and when such a thing is found, it is often even harder to hold on to.But, as so few come to learn, absence does indeed make the heart grow fonder.
M.D. Elster - Four Kings
Everyone knows: people who cross boarders do so for a reason.
Munia Khan -
The light within us can always identify our mind’s darkness
Auden Johnson - The Sciell
I would destroy the entire village if doing so meant keeping you safe.
L. Joseph Shosty -
And you will spend the rest of your life wondering if I have disciples to avenge me. Hire your tasters, Burbesh. Until the Master of the Sleeps comes for you, you’ll never know a taste of anything that has not touched another’s lips first. You’ll never sleep in a bed that has not been first tossed for vipers. You’ll never sit in a chair that has not been tested for poisoned barbs in its cushions. You shall never see a bath drawn for you that you will not at first fear is acid. And you’ll never h
Ashley Earley - The Darkest Light
I am ready for battle. I am ready to fight.
Just B. Jordan - Never To Live
People won't change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain changing brings.
Just B. Jordan - Never To Live
I don't have to stand and walk, I only have to open my eyes.
Kevin James Breaux - Blood Divided
Right and wrong matters little when survival matters most.
Krista Alasti - Taming Shadows
So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire’s coffin? - Shella
Marjorie M. Liu - The Mortal Bone
Maxine,” Grant said, but I barely heard him. I was lost in that vision, in those emotions—the pain, and hunger for pain, forming the root of so muchagonized rage.“ ‘Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate,’” I muttered.“Yoda, from Star Wars?”“ ‘Hate leads to suffering.’” I met his gaze. “Yoda knows his shit, man.”Grant’s mouth crooked in a gentle smile.
Hazel Butler - Bleizgeist
Before long, the smokey spectre appeared, as I knew it would, the barest whisper of a shadow, inky and incandescent. It darted forwards, then back, closer, then ppfft, it was gone in an instant, only to return, darker and more substantial. As ever, it grew bolder, and bolder, until finally it dared to drift through the window and into my home.Every night I had lain here, the geist had come.
Keishi Ando - Dark Sweet: A Collection of Poetry
I was running on the earth,Slashing primeval winds.I was running in the world,Riddled with darkness.
Eve Masters - Close Friends
Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn’t exist amongst our kind
Anne Bishop - Daughter of the Blood
*I don't want the body,* she whimpered. *It hurts.**Not always, sweetheart. Not always. Without the body, how will you hear a bird's song? How will you feel a warm summer rain on your skin? How will you taste nutcakes? How will you walk on a beach at sunset and feel the sand and surf under your... hooves?*
Ashley Earley - The Darkest Light
Depression is a funny thing. Some days you have the strength to get up out of bed and attempt to live your life as a normal human being, but others…you just don’t want to leave your room and socialize with the outside world—the world that you hate on days like this. You stay secluded in a tiny space, left alone to the thoughts that eat at your brain until you finally sit down and let them be thought.
Ashley Earley - The Darkest Light
My mind screams for me to run, but my feet are planted where they are. This can’t be happening. This can’t be real. There’s no way this is real!
E.M. Markoff - The Deadbringer
You can only hide the sun for so long.
E.M. Markoff - The Deadbringer
Be what you yearn to be, and stop living for false ideals.
Sabrina Zbasnik - And They Lived: A Short Story Anthology
Rap un zeal' Demon within. I might as well put up a giant 'Come and Get Eaten' sign for the good those warning runes do.
E.M. Markoff - The Deadbringer
Gossip is the swiftest bird alive," Amonos said darkly."Yes," said E'sinea, turning to view his surroundings. "I should like one day to catch Gossip and wring its neck.
Soroosh Shahrivar - The Rise of Shams
Hope had only revealed herself to him when he was immersed in darkness
Charlotte Munro - Requiem City: The Butcher
I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s wrong. He’s wrong!’ Vanian pleaded, I could feel the quiver of his magic, the wisps that were fighting against the iron burning into his wrists, I could feel the crackle as it fought in the air, against his emotions, against his pain. I shook my head, was about to speak but Adam grabbed him by the front of his shirt; as if a few more tears and shreds couldn’t go amiss. The tightness of his grip paled the Faerie’s
Julie Elise Landry - Bless the Skies
Wake early, take more!
Marc Gascoigne - Shadowmaster
Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed.