Goblin Quotes - Page 3

• Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Dark, Men

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• No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Thinking, Names

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• Can I ask you a question? You know with vampires and werewolves and goblins and things, is there any mythological creature that doesn't actually exist?" "Of course," he replied. "The unicorn and the leprechaun would be would be the two main ones. The Loch Ness Monster isn't real, either, that's just someone called Bert.

  Derek Landy

  Real, Two, Vampire

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.140, HarperCollins UK

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• Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

  China Mieville

  Past, Kraken, Apples

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• Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.​

  Mira Grant

  People, Worry, Rose

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• When you once attribute effects to the will of a personal God, you have let in a lot of little gods and evils - then sprites, fairies, dryads, naiads, witches, ghosts and goblins, for your imagination is reeling, riotous, drunk, afloat on the flotsam of superstition. What you know then doesn't count. You just believe, and the more your believe the more do you plume yourself that fear and faith are superior to science and seeing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Believe, Evil, Drunk

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• I'm not implying that fantasy is for kids. I'm saying that more and more people are finally realizing that there's more to fantasy stories than elves and wizards and goblin armies.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Kids, Army, People

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• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Men, Life And Death, Form

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.350

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• When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

  Dave McKean

  Dream, Memories, Mean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Moving, Writing, Army

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• All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.

  Washington Irving

  Lonely, Night, Men

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• An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

  Jim C. Hines

  Book, Writing, Fire

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• Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Believe, Book

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• Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.

  A.C.H. Smith

  Children, Taken, Expectations

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

  Francis Spufford

  Song, Reading, Tree

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• I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief.

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Night, Pockets

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Great Expectations”, p.14, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mermaid, Magic, Gold

  Shel Silverstein, “Magic”

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• I do not believe that there are any such things as gods and goddesses, for exactly the same reasons as I do not believe there are fairies, goblins or sprites, and these reasons should be obvious to anyone over the age of ten.

  A.C. Grayling

  Believe, Age, Gods And Goddesses

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• Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Mother, Children, Moving

  "Exploring the Edge of the Fantasy Map: PW Talks with Patrick Rothfuss". Interview with Paul Goat Allen, www.publishersweekly.com. January 31, 2011.

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