Mythical Creatures Quotes

• There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

  Cornelia Funke

  Inkheart, Creatures

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• I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Switzerland, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.

  Julia Golding

  Men, Hiding, Ran

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• If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Horse, Humor

  TV Series "Comedy Central Presents" ("Demetri Martin", 2004), www.imdb.com. (1998–).

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• she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist." "She said that depends on whether or not there's someone who can see them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Phoenix, Mind, Ashes

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.1091, Simon and Schuster

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• My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

  Jodi Picoult

  Brother, Men, Dragons

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to put wings on my mythical creatures, because I've always wanted to be able to fly! That's a dream of mine.

  Brendon Urie

  Dream, Wings, Able

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• Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Pat Barker

  Butterfly, Cutting, Soul

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• ...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.

  Lian Hearn

  Mean, Animal, Blessing

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• It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

  Roger Zelazny

  Games, Giving, Unicorn

  Roger Zelazny (1983). “Unicorn Variations”, Pocket Books

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• It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.

  C. S. Lewis

  Friendship, Sex, Past

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• I had My Little Ponies. I was obsessed with the idea of a creature that was born with something magical that sort of made them the misfit in the world of the stallion. I’m actually quite obsessed with unicorns. They are in essence a mythical creature. The unicorn is born magical and it’s not the unicorn’s fault and it doesn’t make it any more or less special or any less unique but it can’t help that it was born with that magic.

  Lady Gaga

  Unique, Ideas, Essence

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• You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence." -Bella

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love You, Love Of My Life, Switzerland

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• A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

  E. L. James

  Men, Creatures

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• Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

  Steve Stern

  Believe, Angel, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  Tamora Pierce

  Writing, Character, Animal

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• I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Country, Twilight, Party

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.

  Anne Rice

  Stars, Powerful, Memorable

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• In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Nature, Writing, Butterfly

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.91, Canongate Books

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