"Myths aren't fairy tales or legends-they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries..."

Mythology, Myth, Truth, Explanation, Story

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"Myths aren't fairy tales or legends-they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries..."

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"Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real."

Jim Butcher, American Author

Mythology, Memory, Myth, Fear, Reality

"Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mythology, Fate, Survival, Power, Struggle

"Most of the stories you hear about dragons are fodder for fools."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Mythology, Story, Myth, Truth, Fantasy

"Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Mythology, Humor, Reality, Awareness

"A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working."

Joseph Campbell, American Author

Mythology, Myth, Interpretation, Thought, Understanding

"I was trying to do you a favor, you silly woman. A few more hours in the fire, and your baby boy would have been immortal! He would've grown into a fine young god and brought you eternal honor. Now you've ruined the magic. He will simply be human-a great hero, yes, strong and tall, but doomed to a mortal life. He will only be Demophoon, when he could have been Fully Phoon! Phoon the Great!"

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Mythology, Power, Truth, Regret, Future

"I learned the Norse gods came with their own doomsday: Ragnarok, the twilight of the gods, the end of it all. The gods were going to battle the frost giants, and they were all going to die.Had Ragnarok happened yet? Was it still to happen? I did not know then. I am not certain now."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mythology, End, Uncertainty, Truth

"They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Mythology, Belief, Fantasy, Reality, Imagination

"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Mythology, Repetition, Myth, Humanity, Innocence

"They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mythology, Superiority, Power, Belief

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