Fantasy Literature

🇺🇸Ursula K. Le Guin

Literature

1929–2018

"All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens."

🇺🇸Jack Vance

Literature

1916–2013

"Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you."

🇺🇸Suzanne Collins

Literature

b. 1962

"You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."

🇬🇧Terry Pratchett

Literature

1948–2015

"I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him."

🇺🇸Julie Kagawa

Literature

b. 1982

"You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."-Allison"

🇺🇸Roger Zelazny

Literature

1937–1995

"I have noted, too, that when it comes to matters of security the laws are considerably relaxed."

🇺🇸Harlan Ellison

Literature

1934–2018

"I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other."

🇺🇸Sarah Monette

Literature

b. 1974

"He did not entirely believe himself, but he knew he had best pretend he did."

🇺🇸Robert Sheckley

Literature

1928–2005

"Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril."

🇺🇸Leigh Bardugo

Literature

b. 1975

"The moment our lips met, I knew with pure and piercing certainty that I would have waited for him forever."

🇺🇸Richelle Mead

literary activity

b. 1976

"Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?"

"'Doesn't worry me,' Jane replied, I'm an accountant."

🇺🇸Cinda Williams Chima

Literature

b. 1952

"Falling in love was like falling off a cliff. It felt pretty much like flying until you hit the ground."

🇬🇧Jasper Fforde

Literature

b. 1961

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

🇺🇸Patricia A. McKillip

Literature

1948–2022

"She lies like the moon lies, a different face every night, all but one of them false, and the one true face as barren and hard as stone. Why do you believe her?"

🇬🇧Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Literature

b. 1953

"Apparently this was a design flaw in the unaugmented human brain, a lagging of consciousness behind intent."

🇺🇸Michael Bishop

Literature

1945–2023

"You can’t go home again, particularly if you never had one."

🇺🇸Becca Fitzpatrick

Literature

b. 1979

"But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you."

🇺🇸Tomi Adeyemi

Literature

b. 1993

"The thing is that underneath we are all humans…Everyone has people they love and people they want to protect, everyone has things they are afraid of or that cause them pain."

"I think I’m as normal as the next guy. But I won’t go after what I want regardless of the price. Doing that nullifies the worth of whatever you’re after."

"There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt."

"When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace."

"I think sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we’re imagining it. Because it is the most painful kind of hope there is."

🇫🇷Rosamund Hodge

literature

"They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true."

🇺🇸H. P. Lovecraft

Literature

1890–1937

"Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial..."

🇨🇦Steven Erikson

Literature

b. 1959

"— all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims ... for what?"

"Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death."

🇺🇸Sylvia Day

Literature

b. 1973

"You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, ace, but this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde shit ain’t cutting it with me."

🇺🇸David Weber

Literature

b. 1952

"Narration: Perhaps his love for her made him less than impartial, but he also knew how deeply she'd been hurt and chided her for judging herself so much more harshly than she would have judged someone else..."

🇺🇸Joe Hill

Literature

b. 1972

"I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward."

🇺🇸Greg Bear

Literature

1951–2022

"There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds."

"Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him."

🇺🇸Brandon Sanderson

Literature

b. 1975

"That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again"

🇺🇸Laurell K. Hamilton

Literature

b. 1963

"It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us."

🇺🇸Sofia Samatar

Education

b. 1971

"Words are sublime, and in books we may commune with the dead. Beyond this there is nothing true, no voices we can hear."

🇺🇸Terry Goodkind

Literature

objectivism

1948–2020

"Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy."