6,395 Quotes About Fantasy

None of this is real, my dear. Not this house, not this conversation, not those shoes you're wearing--which are several years out of style if you're trying to reacclimatize yourself to the ways of your peers, and are not proper mourning shoes if you're trying to hold fast to your recent past--and not either one of us. 'Real' is a four-letter-word, and I'll thank you to use it as little as possible while you live under my roof.

... you of all people should know that all is not as it may appear.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Buku seharusnya berada di tangan yang paling bisa menghargainya, dan tidak hanya diletakkan tanpa dibaca, mengumpulkan debu dalam lemari yang terlupakan.

Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.