#fantasy quotes

[frodothefair]

Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

[nixscriptum]

[kindredwhimsy]

"We're so quick to dismiss the sentiment as weak, but hearts beat for love, don't they?" "A life without purpose may be no life, but a life without love is nothing but an existence."

We Hunt the Flame – Hafsah Faizal

[miraenart]

Other Nature.

Prints here!

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan

[firelightletters]

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles, 2011

[godzilla-reads]

“A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?”

Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

[wouldiweresteadfastasthouart]

"She had been told that men must not look into a dragon's eyes, but that was nothing to do with her." is one of the hardest lines in the history of fiction.