Top 46 Short Fantasy Quotes
#1. Time is fleeting, life is short.
Learn the lessons, you must be taught.
Destiny waits, for those it calls.
The choice is yours, one and all.
SKETA
#2. Then why are you still here?" I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.
"Masochism."
"I don't know what that means."
"It means I like my own pain."
"That doesn't make sense."
"I'm human. You think we ever make sense?
Tessa Maurer
#3. You know, the world is all about balance. You lose something here ... maybe somebody else picks it up over there.
Natasha Larry
#4. He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.
John Howard Matthews
#5. I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
Sarah Zettel
#6. Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness
that is, the improbable
with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.
Emile M. Cioran
#8. All his senses screamed in warning, the very air reeking of forbidden magic, but duty call him forward.
Karen Azinger
#10. Fear is the short road to death and this world,
Changed by the flux of decay:
Survival is the exception for weary men.
From the new book The Waning
Ellen Mae Franklin
#11. Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.
George R R Martin
#12. Are you on crack? Or did I take a righteous bong hit before coming here?
Natasha Larry
#13. You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you.
A. Merc Rustad
#14. The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think.
Paul W.S. Bowler
#15. His eyes widened and he sucked in a small portion of his bottom lip as if trying to control his temper which she had no doubt was brutally savage. He didn't back off, only let out a short puff of air.
"Oh, I'm good with brats. I've broken dozens of them.
Madison Thorne Grey
#17. An optimist and a gentleman, I like that in my men.
Karen Azinger
#18. Yes, she probably thought he was a few displays short of an exhibition, seeing as he had yet to utter a single word.
Liz Bower
#19. She sucked a breath and held it as something consumed her. Something else entirely.
Natasha Larry
#21. One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.
Dale Peck
#22. 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
#23. Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.
Jeff VanderMeer
#24. Ah yes, now you're beginning to feel it. It's so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart - if I had one.
Jaye Frances
#25. THE COLLECTED SHORT FICTION OF ORSON SCOTT CARD Experience Card's full versatility, from science fiction to fantasy, from traditional narrative poetry to modern experimental fiction.
Orson Scott Card
#26. One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.
Brooke Warra
#27. If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.
Alexandar Tomov
#28. Imagination is a safety net that catches you. There is no going too far, no need for a safe word inside your mind. This world is your creation.
K. Kiker
#29. It's all short, sweet and simple, but it's all a moment's worth.
Lauren Lola
#31. I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like,"Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight
J. Keller Ford
#32. Fashion as we used to know it doesn't exist. The dress as we know it today-it's dead. The dress has become so short it's really a tunic worn with leggings ... Fashion is fantasy, it's a child's game ... Now I'm going to be this, and then I'm going to be something else.
Rudi Gernreich
#33. Everyone has fantasies and the variations in these visions of passion vary widely. It is a natural experience that occurs in every human being. Having a rich fantasy life is not only enjoyable, but psychologically "normal.
K. Kiker
#34. Father lied.
The knowledge tasted bitter on her tongue. She folded the
orb into a scarf she'd brought. It didn't conceal its light, but it was
better than carrying the orb through the halls exposed.
Jennifer M. Zeiger
#35. Oh, yeah. He's dead, a voice inside her head confirmed.
"No way!" Brianna backed away from him, looking around the room in panic.
Yeah, you're right. That lack of pulse probably means something else.
Natasha Larry
#36. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.
Kyle Richardson
#37. Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!
Eca De Queiros
#39. Long are the lives of elves' he said.
Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.
William King
#40. Just tell yourself they're only stories.
Pamela K. Kinney (Spectre Nightmares and Visitations)
Pamela K. Kinney
#41. It's not enough to have good ideas, you need to master their implementation.
Rossi, Luca (2014-06-22). Galactic Energies: Science fiction and fantasy short stories (p. 20). . Kindle Edition.
Luca Rossi
#42. I had reason to be wary of Rowan Gresham.
Crazy doesn't always look crazy.
Sometimes it looks like the most handsome and refined gentleman ever encountered in one's short life.
Jen Crane
#43. Fuck your honour, Kaisheen. You are the smartest man I know, yet you had me travel three days during winter to have my counsel. Are you making a move on the Emperor? If you are, you'll have my full support and the backing of the Monasteries.
Paul W.S. Bowler
#44. If you want someone to tell you what to think ... "
"You will never be short of people willing to do so.
Frances Hardinge
#45. I told you. I've been watching." She twirled, her arms outstretched. "Watching, watching, watching.
A.F. Stewart
#46. Gavin turned to leave, and I was right behind him so I could close the door when he walked out, but he stopped short and turned back around. I bumped straight into him, our faces close, too close, at this point.
"I've missed you," Gavin whispered.
Brynn Myers
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