Urban Fantasty Quotes & Sayings

Love, our love, had been a shooting star, burning in the darkness, unseen until it got too close, too bright and too quick to capture. It burned out, lost to the deep cold and darkness, to the brutality of space, the infinity above us and in the new emptiness inside of me. — Karina Halle

I think it was then that it dawned on me that Mum wasn't going to notice Chris was missing. She has been made so that she thinks Chris is just round the corner all the time. She doesn't realise that she never sees him. I don't know why I didn't understand earlier. If Aunt Maria can turn Chris into a wolf, she's surely strong enough to do this to Mum- except that it seems a different kind of thing, much more natural and ordinary, and I didn't really think she could do both kinds. — Diana Wynne Jones

The Sookie Stackhouse novels were selling well before the TV show, but the TV show led to a lot more exposure and readers. And a lot went on to read my other work. It was a wonderful thing for my bank account. — Charlaine Harris

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that. — Zach Braff

What difference can a bunch of photographers make?" Rosier sneered. "Most of them look as though they're a hamburger away from a heart attack. — Kirsten Miller

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. — Edward De Bono

I write songs about real things ... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really. — John Mayall

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem. — Marvin Bell

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist. — Aimee Bender

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft. — Ben Okri

The fans out in New Zealand are amazing. They're genuinely excited and appreciative that you're playing their country. — Beau Bokan

Many animals flourish not in spite of the fact that they are "animals" but because they are "animals" - or even more precisely, perhaps, because they are felt to be members of our families and our communities, regardless of their species. And yet, at the very same moment, billions of animals in factory farms, many of whom are very near to or indeed exceed cats and dogs and other companion animals in the capacities we take to be relevant to standing (the ability to experience pain and suffering, anticipatory dread, emotional bonds and complex social interactions, and so on), have as horrible a life as one could imagine, also because they are "animals."

Clearly, then, the question here is not simply of the "animal" as the abjected other of the "human" tout court, but rather something like a distinction between bios and zoe that obtains within the domain of domesticated animals itself. — Cary Wolfe

There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead and think, "There is still so much to be done, and I will continue to make the most of it. — Elizabeth Berrien

Science is a satisfactory curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us. — Andy Stanley

It was not accustomed to being summoned. — Laura Oliva

When we try to form a new habit, we set an expectation for ourselves. Therefore, it's crucial to understand how we respond to expectations. — Gretchen Rubin