Fantasy Scifi Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't shake Zander's beady red eyes or the noise of his pounding wings behind us. His hot breath and foul stench reached for us, but couldn't catch us as we soared above liquid green fields in the Realm Beyond. — Dianne Bright

You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you. — E.J. Koh

I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy. — Almney King

He had forgotten they lived with a rope around their necks - until it cinched. — E.J. Koh

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh — Kim Cormack

Gabrielle chuckled, her dark eyes twinkling. "So he's been after you, has he? Poor Etta, pursued by a sun priest offering to pleasure - "
"Every nook and cranny," Marietta interrupted dryly and Gabrielle tipped her head back with a throaty laugh. — Michelle O'Leary

Azel was an aficionado in killing and in chocolate cake. — E.J. Koh

All witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types. They thought you could see life through books but you couldn't, the reason being that the words got in the way. — Terry Pratchett

In the woods lay a bleeding angel in all her glory. Her arms posed gracefully above her head and her hair soaked in the mud, the blood and feces in which she lay. Dying, fading into the other realm, her form christened by the rain as though the trees had begun to weep upon her in sadness for the brutality she had endured. (The Children of Ankh series) — Kim Cormack

The future will be different from how they have told us — John Nexdar

Your hair is like butterflies," Sebastian said, giggling like a child.
"That's nice," Firen said impatiently. "Keep moving."
"Fantastic. I always like my days better with a touch of insanity," Gabriella quipped. — Laura Kreitzer

If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world. — E.J. Koh

Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face."

--Nero Slyvenski

ALL LIGHT WILL FALL — Almney King

Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead. — Susan Waterwyk

Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn't exist amongst our kind — Eve Masters

I don't understand humans." Caradoc shook his head. "It takes their brightest minds decades to plan an unmanned voyage to the nearest planet, which can take a year to travel each way. Yet they expect there to be aliens travelling distances it takes light decades to reach us, just for a weekend of bum fun with a total stranger without asking their permission, before dropping them off where they found them. They're just dying to believe the weirdest, least plausible things possible. — Dylan Perry

What is damage but forcing yourself, memories of yourself, onto someone else? Coloring someone else's body. In reality, it's sort of romantic. It's why we love to hurt each other. — E.J. Koh

Games are never over because you think them so! Which is why I like you. Are you doing what you want to do...or are you simply another piece of a darkened puzzle? Your own actions predetermined by powers higher than yourself? — LaTorre Mays

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. — Destinee Hardwick

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist. — Brent Weeks

To read is to live inside a new world... — R.L. Henry

Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself. — E.J. Koh

Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia. — E.J. Koh

Idrith didn't want to go back to his cold lonely room, with all its unanswered questions. He took the glass and sat down. — Michelle Frost

Adapt or die. It was savagely simple."

-- Celeste

ALL LIGHT WILL FALL — Almney King

simplicity can often become failure. If you're not careful — Dalian Artanian

Love can provide strength when intellect can find no reason for it. — Susan Waterwyk

The red was something none of them could contain. — E.J. Koh

The tall monk who came striding down the shadowed monastery corridor was surprisingly young, barely thirty. As he swept past the novices, his dark robe flapping wildly around his legs, they bobbed their heads in fearful deference. — Michelle Frost

Nowhere on Earth was stupidity prized anymore. — Mark Landau

The dead are not always so dumb as you think, it takes much more to die than you would believe. — E.J. Koh

Critics have called alien epic 'Avatar' a version of 'Dances With Wolves' because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the latest scifi rehash of an old white guilt fantasy. — Annalee Newitz

My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood. — Kerry Alan Denney

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. — E.J. Koh

I am not a fan of the magical quick fix in any fiction, including fantasy, scifi and comic books. Unless Dr. Who is involved, and then only because we get to use the phrase 'Timey-wimey wibbliness' which, I'm sure you'll agree, there are not enough occasions to drop into ordinary adult conversation. — Chris Dee

If we don't dream. Then we will never know what we can become. — Dalian Artanian

The world of a cat is unlike any other. What is seen through their eyes cannot be understood by anyone besides another cat. Their world is filled with secrets and adventures that are always present and forever changing. To look at the world as a cat is to look through the veil of reality. — Alex G. Zarate

Not only can I see perfectly in the dark, but I can sense the molecular makeup of every object in the room. — J. Lee Roberts

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing 'Sleep sweet sleep'. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack — Kim Cormack

In every lifetime there is a moment. A moment so clear, so profoundly unique; that it stands out against billions of other moments. When you find a moment such as this one, you pay extra close attention to it. It will usually contain something that defines you in the future. (The Children of Ankh) — Kim Cormack

scifi,fantasy,gay fiction — Verawat Kanoknukroh

The king who stepped into the ballroom wearing a green velvet robe and bejeweled crown was none other that the tiger-man who'd prowled through my nightmares and nearly every waking moment for the past two days. Chorda. — Kat Falls

We have time. Fear tangled into her clothes, cinched the shirt, spiraled into the veins. — E.J. Koh

Love?' Echo was right. All destruction started from love, didn't it? — E.J. Koh

I would let you take me through a million nightmares if it meant that I could have one dream with you. — B. Mauritz

We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger than you. — E.J. Koh

There is no getting away from the past or from one's destiny. — Laxmi Hariharan

Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are. — E.J. Koh

Reality is highly overrated. — Roxanne Bland

The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement. — E.J. Koh

From: The Crown of Telus
She opened her eyes, saw the crown sitting on her bedside table, and wished that it was all a dream. The crown of Trist was nothing special. It had no gemstones, no gold or silver filigree; instead it was simple, a metal circlet with four points and some inlay around a scratched and dented band.
"It's a working man's crown," she remembered her father holding the symbol of power out to her when she younger. "See the inlay? Three moons, one for each of our gods, over an oak which represents the mighty forests of the north, a shock of wheat for the Plainsmen to the south, a ship for the Gheltes to the west, and a hashap flower for the spice in the east. Nothing more. We don't need anymore."
Tears welled in her eyes. A working man's crown. Nothing fancy or bejeweled, a symbol of the power that guides the land and cares for its people.
This was going to be the first day she wore it as queen. — William Laws