Runes Quotes:

I am a rune a carrot a little joke

- Walter Wykes

source: Walter Wykes (2006). “Three Plays of the Absurd”, p.279, Lulu.com

topic: Littles, Carrots, Runes

Jem touched the parabatai rune on his shoulder, through the thin material of his nightshirt. "I am not alone," he said. "Wherever we are, we are as one.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1151, Simon and Schuster

topic: Runes, Said, Shoulders, Parabatai

his parabatai rune was bleeding

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Bleeding, Runes, Parabatai

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

- Erica Jong

source: Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.235, Penguin

topic: Book, Fall, Reading, Runes

A rune, hovering like an angel: a shape like two wings joined by a single bar.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Angel, Wings, Two, Runes

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.141, Random House

topic: Stars, Circles, Magic, Runes, Good Meals

It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head back to look up at him. "Ninety-five percent? What's the other five percent?" "Oh, you know, the usual--demons I might kill, runes I need to learn, people who've annoyed me recently, people who've annoyed me not so recently, ducks." "Ducks?

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Dirty, Thinking, Ducks, Dirty Thoughts, Runes

You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock." "Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

topic: Girl, Sarcastic, Mean, Shadowhunters, Clary And Jace

Beauty in this Iron Age must turn From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn Who hopes to wake the Future to arise In Phoenix -fashion, and to shine with rays To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes Of selfishness and lust have stained our days...

- Philip Jose Farmer

source: "Beauty in This Iron Age". Poem by Philip Jose Farmer, originally published in Orma McCormick and Nan Gerding "Starlanes: International Quarterly of Science Fiction Poetry", Issue 11 (Fall 1953); republished in Philip Jose Farmer "Pearls From Peoria" edited by Paul Spiteri, 2006.

topic: Fashion, Men, Sight, Runes

Will closed his eyes. He could not hear Jem go, not anymore; he did not want to know the moment when he left and Will was alone, did now want to know when his first day as a Shawdowhunter without a parabatai truly began. And if the place over his heart, where his parabatai rune had been, flared up with a sudden burning pain as the door closed behind Jem, Will told himself it was only a stray ember from the fire.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “Clockwork Princess”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

topic: Pain, Princess, Eye, Jem Carstairs, Parabatai

We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.

- Cassandra Clare

topic: Commitment, Wish, Nephilim, Jem Carstairs, Parabatai

Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves...But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?

- John Steakley

topic: Reading, Astrology, Evil, Good Vs Evil, Runes

Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said “Chernobog.” The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn’t be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope.

- Ilona Andrews

source: Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.89, Penguin

topic: Morning, Rose, Black, Inverted, Morning Dew

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind of rudimentary alphabet by means of which everything could be expressed with the most limited means. They evoked prehistoric runes and the early I-Ching, or Book of Changes.

- Michel Seuphor

source: "Abstract Painting". Book by Michel Seuphor, Dell Publishing Co., p. 98, 1964.

topic: Book, Mean, Sky, Prehistoric, Runes

A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

topic: Garden, Thinking, Italian, Runes

A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

topic: Brother, Soul, Half, Parabatai, Runes

Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?" "It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?" "Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters.  Ferocious things, wild hamsters." 

- Christopher Paolini

topic: Nice, Mean, Blue, Saphira, Spice Of Life

No! I don’t want to Ouija, or do the pendulum thing, and I swear if I see one tarot card or rune stone I’ll yack cupcake all over you. (Grace)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.18, Macmillan

topic: Cupcakes, Grace, Over You, Tarot, Runes

Cogswhallop glanced skeptically at the complex runes. "Are you sure this'll work, gen'ral?" "Of course I'm sure-" Ping. The silvery note echoed in the cramped room. Makenna felt her face turn scarlet.

- Hilari Bell

topic: Rooms, Faces, Ping, Runes

You and Jace – you’re not quite normal, are you? I mean, not normal Shadowhunters. There’s something special about you both. Like the Seelie Queen said. You were experiments.” He smiled at her startled look. “I’m not stupid. I can put these things together. You with your rune powers, and Jace, well…no one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1220, Simon and Schuster

topic: Queens, Stupid, Mean, Shadowhunters, Runes

You'd think the Angel would have been foresighted enough to give us a birth-control rune, but no dice.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

topic: Angel, Thinking, Giving, City Of Fallen Angels, Runes

The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it Andúril, Flame of the West.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J. R. R. TOLKIEN “THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING”

topic: Stars, War, Son, Going To War, Crescent Moon

Does she still love you?" "I don't think so," Magnus said dryly. "She wasn't very pleasant the last time I saw her. Of course, that could be because I've got an eighteen year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't." Alec sputtered. "As the person being objectified, I ... object to that description of me.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1827, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love You, Thinking, Years, Magnus Bane, Old Boyfriend

It’s me,” he said, and cleared his throat. “I could understand if you didn’t believe me, but I swear on the Angel, Iz, it’s me.” Alec said nothing, but his grip on Jace’s hand tightened. “You don’t need to swear,” he said, and with his free hand touched the parabatai rune near his collarbone. “I know. I can feel it. I don’t feel like I’m missing a part of me anymore.” “I felt it too.” Jace took a ragged breath. “Something missing. I felt it, even with Sebastian, but I didn’t know what it was I was missing. But it was you. My parabatai.

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2251, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, Angel, Hands, Parabatai, Runes

I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.

- Ken Baumann

source: "Go Forth (vol. 6)". Interview with Nicolle Elizabeth, logger.believermag.com. December 7, 2012.

topic: Taken, Writing, Race, Runes, Fantasy Novels