“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!” -Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Looking…
Fantasy
Chrono Trigger magnum opus: addressing questions of interpretation, authorial intent, hype/nostalgia, if the GOAT really exists.
“As JRR Tolkien reminded us, the only people who inveigh against escape are jailers.”
– Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
“Everything you see under the sun and stars owes its very existence to the Balance. The wind and seas, the powers of earth and light, all that these do is well and rightly done in the equilibrium… but now, men hold the power to control the world.”
-Sparrowhawk
“They say that the best blaze brightest when circumstances are at their worst.”
-Sophie
“Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”
-Baron Humbert von Gikkingen
Lady Eboshi: “What exactly are you here for?”
Prince Ashitaka: “To see with eyes unclouded by hate.”
“Without even thinking about it, I used to be able to fly. Now I’m trying to look inside myself and find out how I did it.”
-Kiki
“Hey, let’s go! Hey, let’s go! We’re happy as can be!”
-Opening song lyrics
“A thousand years have passed since the collapse of industrialized civilization. A toxic jungle now spreads, threatening the survival of the last of the human race.” -Narrator
“Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.”
-Aesop
“I know what you think of war, tell me what you think of this peace?”
-Captain Titus Drautos
