Fantasy Quote of the Week

Now why must the word "art" bring out the worst in a man, as if it were a license to assume the morals of a lizard and the grooming habits of a sick guinea pig?
--Esther Friesner, Druid's Blood

Fantasy Quote of the Week

As the vampire could not return to simpler times, so Katje saw herself cut off from the life of raw vigor, the rivers of game, the smoky village air, all viewed from the lofty heights of white privilege. One did not have to sleep half a century to lose one's world these days; one had only to grow older.
--Suzy McKee Charnas, "The Ancient Mind at Work"

Fantasy Quote of the Week

“But you love these stories!” Atticus said. “You love them as much as I do!”

“I do love them,” George agreed. “But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. Their flaws are still there, though.”

“But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does.”

“No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes." He looked at the shelves. "Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.”
--Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country

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Fantasy Quote of the Week

"Ye've the look of a scoundrel!" boomed the man. "And a dandysprat and a ragamuffin. Though I'll admit, for all that, ye could yet be a congressman."
--Harry Dresden meets Sir Stu in Jim Butcher's Ghost Story

Fantasy Quote of the Week

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
--Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Fantasy Quote of the Week

We're all hurling towards death. Some of us just run faster.
--Lizzie Hyde in Viola Carr's The Diabolical Miss Hyde

Fantasy Quote of the Week

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.
--Esther Friesner, "The Wedding of Wylda Serene"

Fantasy Quote of the Week

The word "monster" is monstrously misused and misunderstood. In the popular imagination it conjures up lurid penny dreadful fantasies of mass murderers, slasher movies, bug-eyed aliens from distant galaxies. But these horrors have little to do with genuine monstrosity. Things from outer space are not monsters. King Kong was not a monster. Neither was Dracula. The Creature from the Black Lagoon might just possibly been a monster, but the creature in Frankenstein most definitely was not. Quasimodo, on the other hand, almost certainly was.
--Geoff Nicholson, "Making Monsters"

Fantasy Quote of the Week

There was something grotesquely amusing in that; the frenetic attempt to sell papers while the world died. Not that all newspapers had done that. Those papers that had lived in honesty and integrity died the same way.
--Richard Matheson, I Am Legend

Fantasy Quote of the Week

"Enough talk of nakedness," said Lovecraft. "We have far more important matters upon which to concentrate our attentions."
--David Barbour and Richard Raleigh, Shadows Bend: A Novel of the Fantastic and Unspeakable

Fantasy Quote of the Week

October Country . . . that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. . . .
--Ray Bradbury, The October Country

Fantasy Quote of the Week

It was night in the lonesome October.
--Edgar Allan Poe, "Ulalume"

Fantasy Quote of the Week

Then the chill of the autumn night bore down upon them, a chill greater than that of any natural darkness.
--Karl Edward Wagner, "Sing a Last Song of Valdese"

Fantasy Quote of the Week

He had a knack for mockery, having endured so much of it in his life, and nothing pleased him quite so much as planting the thorns of his wit deep in a well-born hide.
--Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, The Godforsaken

Fantasy Quote of the Week

It was really interesting how much difference a few covered inches could make in your self-respect.
--Charlaine Harris, Deadlocked

Fantasy Quote of the Week

Leo was a half-breed: he had a magical father and a real mother, which meant he had a foot in both worlds and a home in neither.
--Simon R. Green, Drinking Midnight Wine

Fantasy Quote of the Week

Carol stood on Glaeken's rooftop in the bright morning sunlight and wished she had the nerve to remove her blouse. Jack and Bill had pulled off their shirts as soon as they'd stepped out the door. Carol envied the males their casual ability to expose so much surface area to the warm light poking through the cloudless sky.

Why not me? she thought, reaching for the top buttons on her blouse. After all we've been through together, what difference would it make?

But she stopped after two buttons. If it was just Bill, maybe. But not with Jack here.

I know I've been changed by all this -- but not that much. An uptight Catholic girl was still alive and well somewhere within her.
--F. Paul Wilson, Nightworld

Fantasy Quote of the Week

It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind.
--H. P. Lovecraft, "The Festival"