Fanciful Fantastical Fiction Quotes & Sayings

On the fifth night of this solitude, she falls asleep with a candle burning and dreams herself a mermaid with a thick and golden tail, a crown of shimmering conch shells, then awakens with a start. Whether the ship hit something or something hit the ship, another change has come. The ship is dying; she can feel it slipping away. She waits beneath the blanket for icy water to greet her. But instead of the sea, it's a bear that opens the door.

A great white bear up on its hind legs steps across the threshold.

'Good morning,' he says, and reaches out a paw. — Danielle Dutton

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. — R. Buckminster Fuller

And I could see his internal struggle become an all out war. "It wouldn't have made a difference. Not with Adrian involved," he said ... "I meant it. I won't be that guy Rose. I won't be that man that takes someone else's girlfriend. — Richelle Mead

Bingo swayed like a jelly in a high wind. — P.G. Wodehouse

So, yeah, insane people give me hope. Courage to go on being sane and alive, always with the cure at hand, should I ever tire and need it: madness. — Ray Bradbury

I did exactly what you told me to do, Nick. Didn't you tell me to just write the stupid book already? And that even doing the worst thing on the planet had to count for something? Well I can't think of anything worse than what I'm about to do, which is why I think you deserve an explanation. And maybe after you read it you'll realize why I don't have the hope that you have. The truth is this: We begin and end alone. — Matthew J. Hefti

I ended up with enough equipment to bring full employment to a vale of sherpas - — Bill Bryson

But in the end of our love story,We are on the same page. — Alon Calinao Dy

Or was the chill I felt triggered by forces other than wind? — Kathy Reichs

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others. — Terry Tempest Williams

I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself. — Patricia Briggs

As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. — Angela Davis

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth. — Ben Harper

Shaun couldn't hold the sigh back. The disgustingly shaded contents of the pint glass were going to be his only company. His misery was going to have to make good friends with his Monkey Brains. — Sharon Stevenson

You have armed me with strength for the battle. — Joel Osteen

Another irritant is accidental rhyme, as in the sentence "When the rig blew, everything went flying sky-high
me too." Notice here that the rhyme is offensive because both rhyme words, "blew" and "too" are stressed positions; that is, the voice comes down hard on them. The rhyme is not offensive, to most ears, if the writer can get one of the rhymes out of stressed position: "The rig blew sky-high, and everything went flying, me too. — John Gardner