Fantasy Quotes - Page 11

He knew what the thing was going to do next. It was going to climb the hood slowly, toying with them before crushing in the windshield and eating them all alive.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

Men and women who had worn suits for decades traded punches powerful enough to crush elephant skulls, dodged and deflected attacks too fast for the eye to follow, and died suddenly, often before the crowd registered the killing blow.
Victors and dead men were separated by a blink of the eye.

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist.

Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles. Worldbuilding works best when it draws from sources in our world. Characters work best when they’re grounded in solid human emotion and experience.

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.

Tonight she was just plain Liz, nobody extraordinary, paranormal, or otherwise.
Tomorrow, that would change.

And, for the gods sake, don't waste the whole day working! Make time for a bit of adventure dear. This life is only so long.

A conscience can be a dangerous thing

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

Don’t worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.

In one blow, that dream died as they dragged me - him - away. A tear slid down my cheek. I wasn't the only one mourning the loss of a dream.
"I'm sorry."
'You're not alone, I just wanted you to know that. And someday, when I have my powers back and am free, I'm going to do some serious damage to the people who've hurt you.

A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a “tip of my hat” to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

Out of misery, comes unexpected joy.

We can't change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.