{"quotes":[{"text":"Maven Gustav, what is that awful noise?” Tobin bellowed, holding his hands over his ears.“Why, it’s my very own creation!” Gustav replied, beaming with pride. “I made this spell to be activated in the event of a castle emergency. In all my tests, it never failed to wake everyone,” he noted, proudly.“Yes, Gustav. It’s fantastically loud. Well done. But what is the emergency, and how do we turn the alarm off?","author":"R.S. Mollison-Read","tags":["fantasy","fantasy-fiction","magic","magician"],"id":310,"author_id":"R.S.+Mollison-Read"},{"text":"Growing up learning of distant lands and their bloody histories, Wareska had quickly noticed how pointing to someone else as unquestionably worse was a widely common justification for many atrocities.","author":"Ash Gray","tags":["fantasy-fiction","wisdom"],"id":1433,"author_id":"Ash+Gray"},{"text":"We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories.","author":"Erica Sehyun Song","tags":["adventure","adventure-fiction","adventures","coming-of-age","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-ya","fiction","fiction-fantasy","historical-fiction","siblings","victorian","young-adult","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-fiction"],"id":2809,"author_id":"Erica+Sehyun+Song"},{"text":"All stories are ultimately about the fall.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["fantasy-fiction"],"id":2880,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"No.’ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. ‘This is just the beginning, you’ll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.","author":"Natalie Crown","tags":["adventure","fantasy-fiction","natalie-crown","shapeshifters","the-wolf-s-cry","twc","ya","young-adult"],"id":3196,"author_id":"Natalie+Crown"},{"text":"Blood Life is not hunger. It’s freedom.","author":"Rosemary A. Johns","tags":["blood","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","fantasy","fantasy-romance","humor","love-triangle","paranormal-romance","paranormal-romance","quotes","on-life","romance","urban-fantasy","urban-fantasy-romance","urban-fantasy-series","vampire","vampire","vampire-romance","vampire-series","vampires"],"id":3584,"author_id":"Rosemary+A.+Johns"},{"text":"There are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.","author":"Carolyn Turgeon","tags":["fantasy-fiction"],"id":6166,"author_id":"Carolyn+Turgeon"},{"text":"Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and spend time with the characters we give life to.","author":"Jason Ellis","tags":["fantasy","fantasy-fiction","fantasy-literature"],"id":7732,"author_id":"Jason+Ellis"},{"text":"Without the journey and crucial moment of understanding, I would still be questioning everything before me. I know now that I must trust what comes next, for there is a plan greater than the one I can see at work.","author":"Brynn Myers","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","fae","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","light-vs-dark","otters","self-discovery"],"id":7795,"author_id":"Brynn+Myers"},{"text":"There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it was: friendship had happened to both of them, on the sudden, completely aside from Tristan's both endangering and saving Crissand's life. It was no reason related to that, it was no reason that either of them quite knew. Crissand had simply risen on his horizon like the sun of his banner...And that was that....They were together, and there was a great deal right with the day simply in that.","author":"C.J. Cherryh","tags":["epic-fantasy","fantasy-fiction","friendship","love"],"id":7846,"author_id":"C.J.+Cherryh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":439,"pages":44,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}