Life does wait, if only for a limited time.

$Although now long estranged,Man is not wholly lost nor wholly changed.Dis-graced he may be, yet is not de-throned,and keeps the rags of lordship once he owned:Man, Sub-creator, the refracted Lightthro — J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien on Fairy-stories$

Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid — George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May e — Michelle Sagara West, Cast in Ruin

Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood — Alexia Purdy, Reign of Blood

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

Every island to a child is a treasure island. — P.D. James, The Lighthouse

Darkness, no matter how powerful it may seem, can be driven back by the tiniest spark. — Brian Rathbone, The Dawning of Power

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

I would parade you in the hall of the monarchs of the ocean if you could breathe water. — S.M. Wheeler, Sea Change

...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature."It has become a — Lian Hearn, The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori

Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world. — Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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