Quotes about fiction-fantasy

Kendare Blake - Girl of Nightmares

In afew hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll seeher dressed in blood, her hair floating like it’ssuspended in water, eyes black and shining. Andwhen she does, she won’t be able to catch herbreath.

Nicole Gulla - The Lure of the Moon

His dimples were strategically placed as though angels had made thumbprints on him.

Sarah Rees Brennan - The Turn of the Story

Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale’s head.

Barry Tyrrell - House of Brian

I am a spinner of yarns hopefully to transport the reader or listener to places I see in my minds eye.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely like a ghost town.

Catrina Burgess - Awakening

You killed me.” My voice was unsteady.He held me close again. “I brought you back.”“Please tell me we only have to do that once.”He whispered against my ear, “I swear I won’t kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die.” It was a bad joke

Catrina Burgess - Awakening

My mama always said, You can always ask. The worst they can do is say no. But I don’t think Mama was thinking about revenge and murder when she dealt out that piece of homespun advice

Catrina Burgess - Awakening

Don’t worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don’t forget who you are

Catrina Burgess - Awakening

I felt absolutely nothing, and that frightened me even more than the darkness of oblivion

Terry A. O'Neal -

To my fellow writers' I say, 'Write. Build an imaginary world like nobody's watching.

Juvy Ann - String of Fate

No one is sent by accident to anyone.

Juvy Ann - String of Fate

Fate bring two people together and it is love's job to keep them there

Karen Azinger - The Skeleton King

Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.

Karen Azinger - The Steel Queen

Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.

Karen Azinger - The Skeleton King

Splendor was the decree of the day.

Chris Mentillo -

Everything is About To Change.

Urusla K. Le Guin -

Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say,There! That's the truth!

Brian S. Ference - The Wolf of Dorian Gray: A Werewolf Spawned by the Evil of Man

The wolf had begun hunting human prey. They were plentiful in the dark city streets and provided enough good meat to satiate his gnawing hunger. He was still very careful not to let any who saw him live. To do otherwise would displease the Master. He would only stalk those people that were foolish enough to walk alone in the night

Evelyn Winters - The Little Big Clockmaker

You shouldn't be in here!

H.P. Lovecraft - Beyond the Wall of Sleep Complete Works

We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.

Victoria Aveyard - Red Queen

histories of the world before our own. That was a world of empires, of corruption, of war-and more freedom than I've ever known. But the people of that time are gone, their dreams in ruin, existing only in smoke and ash.

Kim Bongiorno - Part of My World: Short Stories

Boney freckled knees pressed into bits of bark and stone, refusing to feel any more pain.Her faded t-shirt hugged her protruding ribs as she held on, hunched in silence.A lone tear followed the lumpy tracks down her cheek, jumped from her quivering jaw onto a thirsty browned leaf with a thunderous plop.Then the screen door squeaked open and she took flight.Crispy twigs snapped beneath her bare feet as she ran deeper and deeper into the woods behind the house. She heard him rumbling and calling h

Cassandra Clare - City of Bones

My one true love remains my self... I dump myself occasionally to keep it interesting

Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't.

Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting

More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart – more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi – more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton.

Karen Azinger - The Steel Queen

For Honor and the Octagon!

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

I knew that it was impossible for us to be kept apart for too long.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

Our pendants glowed in unison and I understood that they represented us – Siren and human intertwined for eternity.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

I watched her shadow merge with the darker colours of the deep sea.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

She smiled sinisterly. Light mist started to slowly swirl around us. All I could see was her, the tall rocks and the white wall. She beckoned to me. I took a step and another. I was now ankle deep into the water. The mysterious girl smiled like a predator.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

I was slightly thankful when Mom finally came out and unlocked the car. It was warm and toasty inside and it smelt like home. There was not the slightest smell of something that didn’t belong home.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

Have you lost your mind? What have I told you Charlie about whales? You can’t MANHANDLE THEM!

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

Although nobody could ever know about our friendship, that wasn’t going to stop us from being together.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

She snorted in amusement at my remark. “When are the guards going to start to notice?” Keith peered into the distance. “Starting now,

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

He sent it flying at full speed. It jumped six times as well, sending ripples across the sea. The small splashes of foam turned into miniature rainbows as they caught the light of the evening sun setting behind the clouds.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

I distracted Herbert by pretending to trip and break a bone. Ethan darted around to the red golf cart with a cocky smile on his face. He put the key in ignition, and the vehicle roared to life. “Hey,” Herbert shouted, snapping his attention to Ethan. I sprang up and ran up to Ethan. He pulled me in the cart and stomped on the gas pedal. We shot through the automatic doors with Herbert on our tail. “Go faster!” I cheered. My brother smacked the steering wheel. “I can’t; it’s a golf cart.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

I told you; I am Arianna, the Siren, your Guardian, and how is a Guardian supposed to do her job if she is clueless about the Guardianee?

Erica Sehyun Song -

I could have drowned…and my brother didn’t even care.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned.

Erica Sehyun Song - The Pax Valley

A long time ago, there was a little girl called Mary. Now Mary, she was warned several times not to go to her neighbor’s house. Her neighbor was a grandmother. But Mary hardly listened, so she snuck off one night to spy on her. She tried the front door first, and it creaked open. Then suddenly, she heard a squeaking noise upstairs. She followed it – climbed up the wooden stairs where half of it was already rotten. She heard the squeaking noise again. It was coming from the library. She opened th

Erica Sehyun Song -

The last image I registered was Ethan and my hand – linked, bound and unbreakable.

Erica Sehyun Song -

We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting us. It’s indestructible – it can never be broken. The thread is the key item that links us together. We understand each other.

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

I stood at the grassy edge and tentatively dipped my toe into the water. I watched the ripple spread and break the perfect reflection before composing itself. The ripple then rushed towards a mass of rocks to one side.

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

As we drifted away from the Tower Bridge, I saw a single silhouette standing against the bright lamplight. Even now when I was nearly asleep, I could recognise her. Her shoulders were hunched up as if she was upset. Whether she was upset that she had nearly killed me or that she had let me get away, I was unsure. Then she turned around and walked to join the other silhouettes standing in a group farther back. Now I could not see which one was Rose – they were all joint together to make one.

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

The four of us stood in silence as we watched the surrounding girls play games or gossip. It was almost as if I did not belong here anymore. It was like I was peering in through a window from a completely different world.

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories.

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

She was not in the body of a young woman but just as I remembered her: a little toddler with a beautiful smile. She reached out with her small hand, and I gripped her tiny fingers as I let go of the pain and sank deeper into the lake.

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cascade of silver bubbles dancing up to the surface.

Ross Turner - Voices in the Mirror

Time is indifferent of the events and triumphs and tragedies of mankind, and really even, for the most part, of its own inexorable passage.

Cameron Jace - Welcome t

The demon of revenge had already taken hold of his heart. The cancer of injustice had already eaten at his cheerful soul, leaving a skeleton of a carcass behind, one that could never feel compassion for humans—or anything else—again.

Stephan von Clinkerhoffen - Stig's Flight of Encounters

Just as he was looking at all the stars and wondering how many millions there were, they started to blink on and off repeatedly. He knew it was the Bach flying overhead. He closed his eyes, squeezing them shut, and slipped off into a restless sleep.

Rick Riordan - The Son of Neptune

THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!"Polybotes frowned, obviously confused that he was being told off by a statue. "What are you?" he growled. "Shut up!"He pushed the statue over and turned back to Percy."Now I'm MAD!" Terminus shrieked. "I'm strangling you. Feel that? Those are my hands around your neck, you big bully. Get over here! I'm going to head-butt you so hard--

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

Time is a funny thing. You can go through it and meddle with it, but nothing can stay permanent. So even if everything so far had not happened, time would still have managed to find a way to make all this happen.

Erica Sehyun Song - Thorns in the Shadow

I felt so much older now, so much more responsible. I guess that there were some positive outcomes: I knew more things than usual, and I knew that I really could accomplish anything and everything. But sometimes, all a fifteen-year-old girl wants is to stop growing. She wants time to slow down and eventually stand still where she can be young and inexperienced forever. Sometimes, she simply wants to remain a child.

Erica Sehyun Song -

Oscar always said that books are truly our best friends. He said that they never think poorly of us and that they always have a shoulder for us to cry on or relieve stress. They take our minds away from the real world by telling us captivating stories. When we look back at our choice of books, we can nostalgically recall our younger years.

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