fantasy-fiction

It takes both sides to build a bridge.

Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.

Those who try to juggle wisdom, power and greed, drop one of the balls, every time.___arost

To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.

He reflects on all the times he thought she wasn__ sure of her feelings for him, when perhaps she might__e been taking a leisurely stroll across Elijah__ heart, leaving footprints behind that he__ never seen.

She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it__ winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?

Critics and academics have been trying for forty years to bury the greatest work of imaginative fiction in English. They ignore it, they condescend to it, they stand in large groups with their backs to it - because they're afraid of it. They're afraid of dragons. They have Smaugophobia. "Oh those awful Orcs," they bleat, flocking after Edmund Wilson. They know if they acknowledge Tolkien they'll have to admit that fantasy can be literature, and that therefore they'll have to redefine what literature is. And they're too damned lazy to do it.

There is no getting away from the past or from one__ destiny.

What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine.

If a lioness spends her hours pacing back and forth in a cage of gold with the finest meats at her disposal, does that make her any less of a prisoner? If that same feline__ fangs are filed down to blunt, un-tearing teeth and her roar is silenced, can she still be called a lioness?

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

there are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them.

There is no right or wrong, only what we believe is more right or more wrong

With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

War was easy. The hard part was cleaning up afterward.

Even though we don't admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard's lyrics, or on the pages in the Library