Top 100 Magic Fantasy Quotes
#1. Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down. This is fantasy at its best.
Stephen Graham Jones
#2. I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
Gary Numan
#3. Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.
Mary Buckham
#5. We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.
Karen Azinger
#6. We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear."
"Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?"
"Poor grammar skills.
Lita Burke
#7. Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.
Brook Tesla
#8. You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.
Sully Tarnish
#10. What if I can't be their hero? What if I'm destined to be the villain?~attributed to Harry Potter
Jacquel Chrissy May
#11. A man without equals is a dangerous man indeed. He must exercise the most difficult of attributes, restraint.
Daniel McHugh
#12. Don't you get it Cat? You're the key. I knew it the day I laid eyes on you.
Amanda Bouchet
#13. The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.
Melanie Crowder
#14. My father laughed. "The magic of Summer," he said, "is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility, laughter, joy, ripening fruits and the smell of fresh bread baking in the morning. That is Summer magic."
Forever Frost (Frost Series 2)
Kailin Gow
#15. None of this was what held Yeva's gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle.
Meagan Spooner
#16. He kissed her, and the magic that had been building up steadily around them exploded, raining down in arcs of silver fire that made her half-remember a prophecy from her dreams.
One by one, they all will die.
Something had been set into motion.
Nenia Campbell
#17. My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it's magic," Alex said. "There's no other possible explanation!" -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer The Land Of Stories
#18. I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.
Lita Burke
#19. Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.
Sam Whitehouse
#20. Where magic is the essence of existence and those who wield it, rarely what they seem
Kathryn Royce-Martin
#21. Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink.
Melodie Campbell
#22. This will be the greatest discovery since the extinction of dinosaurs."
"Assuming dinosaurs did exist, that is," Derkein said.
Alex shook her head. "Couldn't just let me have this moment, could you?
Alecia Stone
#23. Estene aleera hesaad de viren aneda. And now, you are forever mine.
Ilona Andrews
#24. Jung introduced the idea of synchronicity to strip off the fantasy, magic, and superstition which surround and are provoked by unpredictable, startling, and impressive events that, like these, appear to be connected.
C. G. Jung
#25. You're asking for trouble, woman." At the gruff tone of his voice, I raised my head and met his dark, chocolate-brown eyes, rimmed by long lashes that didn't take an ounce away from his masculinity. I wanted to drown in those eyes.
"I like trouble, remember?
Suzanne Johnson
#26. I didn't know I was looking for you, but I was," he whispered.
Thea Harrison
#27. As he hurtled through the air Simon saw the boiling emerald fire hit his protective spell and explode into sickly green sparks, inches from where Falamir was still crouched, oblivious to the chaos unfolding around him.
Sam Whitehouse
#28. A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.
Deborah Blake
#29. Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.
Sully Tarnish
#30. All that we know, soon shall we abandon. As time will lend itself. Eyes know only what they see. But brave hearts beat on with belief.
Nathalie M. Leblanc
#31. There is more magic in our own world than in any world of fantasy.
T.L. Rese
#32. Yeah, but what we need are some fighters who know how to take down a wolf. I know three."
"If you are going to get the Pigs, you'll need backup. They're not to be trifled with.
K.M. Randall
#33. Ellysetta Baristani." Belliard's voice caused her to stop and turn back around. "Even should you clothe yourself in rags and dirt, you would bring honor to the Fey.
C.L. Wilson
#34. Fine. Fine. Let's try. You asked why bad things happen to good people. Well, the simple answer is, there are no bad things and there are no good people. Nothing bad ever happens to anyone and people are neither good nor bad. A person is nothing. A person does not exist. There are no people.
Dorothy Gravelle
#35. I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world.
Kate Forsyth
#36. It's a wonderful fantasy, but it's not real. It's just watermelon magic.
Hope Ramsay
#37. Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it ...
Terry Pratchett
#39. The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
David Mitchell
#40. It was a well-known fact that keeping track of time was not Parry Pretty's forte ... If time were Parry's pet, it would have died tied to a tree somewhere out back long ago.
S.J. Musgraves
#42. An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.
Karen Azinger
#43. Aren't you affected by Simon's magic?"...
"Took you this long to ask me that?"
She clucks her tongue. "You're not the brightest flame in the fire, are you?"
"Don't make me hit you in a library.
Sara Raasch
#45. Makeup can be pure fantasy
it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.
Jessica Alba
#46. Maybe the world didn't need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever could. It didn't matter if one was disobedient, foolish, or unlucky, because the worst things just happened.
Thomm Quackenbush
#47. (Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.
Daniel McHugh
#48. I smiled. You mean like a psychic imprint? I know your assistant director of the Preternatural Division, and I mean no disrespect, but I never got the feeling you believed in magic as an investigative tool.'
From the book 9 Incarnate - Caitlin Diggs Series
Gary Starta
#49. Whoosh! went the bluebird of sarcasm, zooming miles above Dale's head.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#50. You have been gifted the Blood Diamond and are surrounded by all that is good. You will not fail as long as you believe." Analea
Kathy Cyr
#51. A song she heard
Of cold that gathers
Like winter's tongue
Among the shadows
It rose like blackness
In the sky
That on volcano's
Vomit rise
A Stone of ruin
From burn to chill
Like black moonrise
Her voice fell still ...
Robert Fanney
#52. Stop looking at my mouth."
His eyes darkened, as she saw his pupils dilate. He mouthed back, just as silently. "What if I don't want to stop looking at your mouth?
Thea Harrison
#53. Unicorns and rainbows exist because we want them to.
Truth Devour
#55. Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can't explain.
T.K. Kiser
#56. Remember, there were dragons long before men came into the world. Why, it was none other than The Great Dragons of Yore who invented the idea of knighthood. Yes, yes, that's right! Dragons had knights, Kings, princesses and queens long before men crawled out of the muck.
Sully Tarnish
#57. If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light of reality found them, perhaps they could be happy.
D.A. Henneman
#58. 'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 1600-esque world. It's a fantasy story; it's fast and fun and inventive.
Brent Weeks
#59. She wasn't looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.
Denny B. Reese
#60. People tend to focus on the "magic" more than the "realism." But, like all fiction, fantasy arrives at truth via the road of untruth.
Salman Rushdie
#61. Madness,' Nick called. 'That's all I've found here. Does Avalon breed insanity? Is that the nature of magic, to drive everyone out of their minds?
Brom
#62. Hurry up, Hodgeyboy! You run like a fat badger after Sunday tea." Mibbitwiss
Kathy Cyr
#63. This time, I invited it in. I felt the darkness tame my impetuous nature, allowing me to feed slowly on the hatred and control it. The coldness flowed through my veins and to the lengths of each limb. The icy darkness pooled in my chest and chilled my heart.
Leigh Goff
#66. I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.
Ilona Andrews
#67. I want to do everything to you, all at once," he muttered. "I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don't know that I have any gentleness in me tonight.
Thea Harrison
#68. The only thing more unpredictable than magic is language.
Sully Tarnish
#70. Let my sight end. Let the dark tides of Nyx ebb away beneath the white sands of null. Let our pale mother spread once more!
H.S. Crow
#71. When you're doing fantasy, you can get so caught up in the magic of it that you lose the humanity.
Austin Butler
#72. Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.
Erika M. Szabo
#74. It was then that the seven-year-old said, "I am ready. What wonderful place will we visit tonight?"
"I can take you wherever your dreams desire," the calico pony replied on their first night together.
Cheryl Price
#76. Charlotte's dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.
Jennifer Lott
#77. His hand trailed down the side of her face, brushing back spiraling tendrils of hair. Come, shei'tani, dance the skiles with your mate.
C.L. Wilson
#78. Linc was so amazed at what he saw and heard, This is sooo cool. I love this place. This looks way better than a day spotting weird people at Walmart.
S.W. Lothian
#79. This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
David Gemmell
#80. It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
Neil Gaiman
#81. Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden
#82. That's the beauty of magic. You can get it no matter how rich or poor you are.
T.K. Kiser
#83. And said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.
Diana Wynne Jones
#84. Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
Walt Disney Company
#85. Was he a real goblin? A minute ago Ben would have scoffed at the prospect, but then came the dragon.
Victor Kloss
#86. We live in a magic time, Kanefionn Stoneweaver. Who is to say that it is not you who create these marvels?
Amanda Orneck
#87. Margrethe watched them paralyzed by the intensity of the emotions moving through her. So much pain and euphoria, a sense that even though her own heart was broken, the world could contain such beauty and magic she almost could not bear it? What did her own pain matter, in the face of that?
Carolyn Turgeon
#88. I don't do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.
Danielle Monsch
#90. Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down.
Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)
Sapphire Phelan
#91. She paused in the doorway, tipping her head to consider Brittany, who only glared. "You're right. I think most girls don't look like the tooth fairy dresses them every day.
Wendy Knight
#92. They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.
C.J. Milbrandt
#93. Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm.
- Penny Sweeney
Magic All Around
Marcy L. Peska
#94. Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they're soon forgotten.
Karen Azinger
#95. Her arms reached up to wrap around his neck, holding on as if she would never let go. She kissed him back with an ardor that astonished, gratified, and aroused him all at once, and for a moment, he lost himself in the kiss, and in the woman, thinking to himself, now this, this is magic.
Deborah Blake
#96. The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.
Paul Di Filippo
#97. Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.
Karen Azinger
#98. Her beauty was ethereal, knocking on the door of the part of his psyche that still believed in magic and miracles.
D.A. Henneman
#99. Cery: So, Hem, tell me why I shouldn't see how many holes I need to make before you start leaking money?
Trudi Canavan
#100. Patience is the virtue that forges great men.
Chris Vincent