76 Urban Fantasy Quotes

Urban fantasy blurs the lines between the magical and the mundane, creating vibrant worlds where supernatural forces intermingle with everyday life. Whether it's a city where mythical creatures roam hidden in plain sight or a tale of humans discovering their latent magical powers, urban fantasy offers a unique blend of reality and imagination. To capture the essence of this captivating genre, we’ve curated a list of the top 76 urban fantasy quotes. These handpicked gems from beloved books and authors will transport you into realms where the extraordinary becomes part of the ordinary. Dive in and let these quotes ignite your wonder for the magical possibilities lurking in the shadows of our everyday world.

1. “Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.” - Jess C. Scott

2. “Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer” - Geoffrey Thorne

3. “I've always enjoyed a challenge," Niko remarked, shifting through the powder to lift something out. "I think perhaps there are other things I could enjoy instead. Bonsai trees, painting, forging my own weapons. The opportunities are endless." He opened his hand to show me the small braid of several yellowed hairs. "Voodoo." "Think it would work?" I perked up. Killing from a distance wasn't usually my thing, but in this case, I'd make an exception.” - Rob Thurman

4. “Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.” - E.J. Stevens

5. “Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can. ” - Rob Thurman

6. “Random line from BURNING DARKNESS: Fonda Raine stepped out of the back end of a month in hell a hardened warrior, ready to undertake the most important task of her life: kill Eric Aruda.” - Jaime_Rush

7. “I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

8. “Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

9. “I already fear for my life just because of who I am, you think adding a little inconsequential vampire to the equation will change any of that?” - Amalie Howard

10. “Estene aleera hesaad de viren aneda." And now, you are forever mine.” - Ilona Andrews

11. “Robert, I’m sorry that you feel so strange, but I’m not sorry that you’re feeling it because of me,” I whispered, my heart feeling a familiar twinge as I continued, “but even if you hadn’t felt it, it would not change the way I feel about you.” - S.L. Naeole

12. “Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he’d just turned their Doppler radar upside down.Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)” - Sapphire Phelan

13. “I mean, electric shock? Isn’t that a bit... electric shock-y?” - Emmett Spain

14. “I need a victim and no offense Yuki, but your carrot sticks are lacking in controversy.” - E.J. Stevens

15. “I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?"Floote raised a tentative hand."Ah, yes, thank you, Floote.""There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam," he offered hopefully, is if Ivy were some kind of consolation prize."I notice you don't mention my fair-weather husband.""I suspect, at this moment, madam, he probably wants to kill you."Alexia couldn't help smiling. "Good point.” - Gail Carriger

16. “I don’t think we’ve been introduced,” I said. “My name’s Zara. I’m strong, I’m fast, and I totally kick ass. It’s great to be me...but that means right now it sucks to be you.” - Skyla Dawn Cameron

17. “Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College” - Tony-Paul de Vissage

18. “Walk with this tomorrow night. If nothing happens, thendon’t come back. Forget about us, this place, but if you feel theNightwalker in you awaken, then return to where you belong.Return to me, and the streets will run red with blood.” - Keith Kekic

19. “Christians. They’re determined to rid the land of any who worship the Horned One. Murdering all the druids, burning the temples, sometimes whole villages, and knocking over the standing stones.” The Lady’s face hardened. “This god of peace and love certainly likes to bathe the land in blood.” - Brom

20. “Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.” - E.J. Stevens

21. “Wolf, not dog. You were bitten by a Lycan, not Lassie.” - Shannan Albright

22. “Not my species, not my problem.” - Susan Sizemore

23. “I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web.” - Dannika Dark

24. “The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.” - Jess C. Scott

25. “As it so happens, I like your mouth.""It doesn't -- ""Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.” - Dannika Dark

26. “I knew I was a little different from most demons but nothing says freak of nature like a one-eyed gypsy saying I had a rainbow glow. It just didn't sound complimentary.” - Mary Abshire

27. “You’re starting to look like you did before, and that’s not good because what you looked like was complete shit, so get up and go to bed so I can stop acting like your mother. I can already feel my balls starting to recede. And hey, does it look like I’m growing breasts? - Kye” - Krista Alasti

28. “So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire’s coffin? - Shella” - Krista Alasti

29. “God, why do I bother trying to help you? It’s not like you appreciate it. It’s not like the word ‘thanks’ is in your vocabulary. It’s like you’re not capable of being nice to someone you decided to despise when you were six-years-old. Sure, about twelve years have passed, but what’s time compared to your rock-headed mind? - Tran” - Krista Alasti

30. “Been lickin’ peanut-butter spoons? Maybe I should call you butterfingers. It has a better ring than Hella Shella. - Tran'Answer my question, Tran. Right now. Or I show you just what these fingers'--I wiggled my fingers under his nose-- 'can really do.' I took a step closer, erasing the distance between us. 'And let me tell you, emo boy, you are not going to like it. Let’s just say, that peanut butter I ate, freshly made.' I licked my lips with care. 'I’m actually quite skilled when it comes to crushing nuts.' - Shella” - Krista Alasti

31. “Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it’s roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion’s heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale.” - Priya Ardis

32. “Why didn't you let me die? You could have finally been free.""I gave up trying to imagine a world without you." - Essallie & Kayden” - Alivia Anders

33. “Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?” - Jeaniene Frost

34. “Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate.""In less than one full day?" It did sound dumb when he said it that way."Yes." She couldn't keep the uncertainty out of her voice, though, and it bothered Charles. He rolled to his feet and growled softly."Charles also said I was an Omega wolf," she told his father. "That might have something to do with it as well."Silence lengthened and she began to think that the cell phone might have dropped the connection. Then the Marrok laughed softly. "Oh his brother is going to tease him unmercifully about this.” - Patricia Briggs

35. “Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: "Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea.” - Jaime Rush

36. “Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?” - Priya Ardis

37. “Les heures passèrent. Même si la défense et la guerre n'avaient jamais été mon dada, la sécurité des vampires était hautement contextuelle et donc incroyablement intéressante. Il y avait des liens avec l'histoire (les vampires s'étaient fait baiser par le passé!), la politique (La Maison X nous avait baisé par le passé!), la philosophie (pourquoi croyez-vous qu'on nous avait baisé par le passé?) l'éthique (si nous ne buvions pas le sang des humains, nous serions-nous fait baiser par le passé?) et, bien-sûr, la stratégie (comment nous avait-on baisé? Comment pouvait-on éviter de nous faire baiser de nouveau ou, mieux encore, comment pouvions-nous les baiser en premier?)” - Chloe Neill

38. “What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent... Apparently he also has a pet cougar.” - Stacy Mantle

39. “I’m one hell of a public speaker, baby. I’m going to let them see the pain, but if you turn around and start treating me like some damaged little victim, I will murder you. In your sleep.” - Moira Rogers

40. “Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?” - Priya Ardis

41. “If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.” - Priya Ardis

42. “The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.” - Priya Ardis

43. “Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.” - Sarah Rees Brennan

44. “... there's fear that keeps you safe, and fear that warns you, and then there's fear of another sort. The kind that makes you turn on your friends, that irises the world down to one frightened person.” - Margaret Ronald

45. “Some years ago I had a conversation with a man who thought that writing and editing fantasy books was a rather frivolous job for a grown woman like me. He wasn’t trying to be contentious, but he himself was a probation officer, working with troubled kids from the Indian reservation where he’d been raised. Day in, day out, he dealt in a concrete way with very concrete problems, well aware that his words and deeds could change young lives for good or ill.I argued that certain stories are also capable of changing lives, addressing some of the same problems and issues he confronted in his daily work: problems of poverty, violence, and alienation, issues of culture, race, gender, and class... “Stories aren’t real,” he told me shortly. “They don’t feed a kid left home in an empty house. Or keep an abusive relative at bay. Or prevent an unloved child from finding ‘family’ in the nearest gang.” Sometimes they do, I tried to argue. The right stories, read at the right time, can be as important as shelter or food. They can help us to escape calamity, and heal us in its aftermath. He frowned, dismissing this foolishness, but his wife was more conciliatory. “Write down the names of some books,” she said. “Maybe we’ll read them.”I wrote some titles on a scrap of paper, and the top three were by Charles de lint – for these are precisely the kind of tales that Charles tells better than anyone. The vital, necessary stories. The ones that can change and heal young lives. Stories that use the power of myth to speak truth to the human heart.Charles de Lint creates a magical world that’s not off in a distant Neverland but here and now and accessible, formed by the “magic” of friendship, art, community, and social activism. Although most of his books have not been published specifically for adolescents and young adults, nonetheless young readers find them and embrace them with particular passion. I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people from troubled backgrounds say that books by Charles saved them in their youth, and kept them going.Recently I saw that parole officer again, and I asked after his work. “Gets harder every year,” he said. “Or maybe I’m just getting old.” He stopped me as I turned to go. “That writer? That Charles de Lint? My wife got me to read them books…. Sometimes I pass them to the kids.”“Do they like them?” I asked him curiously.“If I can get them to read, they do. I tell them: Stories are important.” And then he looked at me and smiled.” - Terri Windling

46. “If a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk into a bar, you wait for the punch line. At Private Eye, when a faerie, a vampire, and a demon walk through the door, it’s just another day at the office.” - E.J. Stevens

47. “Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe.” - Lisa Mason

48. “Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.” - Maggie Stiefvater

49. “They burned this neighbourhood down in the early 1900s to prevent the spread of bubonic plague, and it occurs to me that they should consider doing it again, to purge the blight of well-meaning hipsters desperately trying to paint it rainbow” - Lauren Beukes

50. “So where did you get your information? Werewolves for Dummies? No, wait, you watched Underworld? Or maybe you were raised by wolves? Stop mewhen I’m warm.” - Shella” - Krista Alasti

51. “The wolves wait for you, little lamb.” - Keri Lake

52. “He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.” - Priya Ardis

53. “You don’t have any balls?’ For once I wasn’t trying to be insulting.” - Chantal Halpin

54. “Without warning, he jumped into the air. Startled, I held him tighter, my cheek against his. Speaking into my ear, he said, “Yer not too tall, nor too thin, nor do ye weigh too much. Yer perfect the way ye are, lass. A man that does not possess the strength, patience and intelligence to provide fer and protect a woman is no man at all.” - Michaela McGregor

55. “Right now. Living. Aiming to misbehave or just trying not to fade away.” - Michael R. Underwood

56. “But, self, that thing was on TV, and this one wants to tear your liver out your nose. Run.” - Michael R. Underwood

57. “Simon laughed heartily. “I’m afraid the rest of us have to find talents to get our women into bed. Of course once they’re there, I have other talents that keep them right where they are.”“Handcuffs hardly count,” Christian said offhandedly.“If you mean the ladies cuffing me to the bed so they can explore Hunt Island,” he said, rubbing his chest, “…then point taken. These hands are capable of making any female climax by the mere brush of a pinky across her bare breast.”“I must have gone to the wrong island,” I said with a private laugh.” - Dannika Dark

58. “If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, the flickering bulb above my head wasn’t it. The faces of my tormentors were no angels—they were hell’s minions and I’d stepped into their purgatory.” - Susan Illene

59. “Quote from BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN – pgs. 86 -87 “A Kiss”:I went to snatch my hand away, but Trent caught my hand in his, startling me. I looked up to see warmth on his face. His smile held the promise of happiness. He scooted closer and held my gaze for a breath, glanced down. He leaned forward, as if he had no control over his actions. I inhaled his nice, soapy-clean scent, and all coherent thought left my head.His hands gripped my waist and Trent yanked me against him, his mouth covering mine in a deep kiss. The caress of his lips was softer than I’d imagined. An unfamiliar rush of excitement engulfed my senses. My hands wrapped around his neck, fingering his silky tousled hair. His moist lips seared a path from my lips to my neck, igniting a blaze of desire that flooded my skin everywhere his lips and roaming hands touched. Boys had kissed me before, but not like this. Never like this...” - Sherry Soule

60. “Holding my hands in his, David kissed my knuckles before he swore to me, “I will love every day of the rest of my life.” - Theresa M. Jones

61. “For chocolate's sake!” - Nicole Green

62. “So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?”He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it.” - Dannika Dark

63. “The Road to Hell is Paved With Bad Intentions” - Vicky Loebel

64. “He pulled back, but only enough to lock his eyes onto mine as he held my face in his hands. “It will always be you, Cassandra,” he whispered against my lips. Then he kissed me again, much softer this time, as if gently transferring every ounce of love he had for me onto my lips. I didn’t need any words, this was all I ever needed to know that he loved me.Everything around me faded. All my worries, all my fears disappeared when he touched me. We weren’t stuck in this Hell, we weren’t even in its realm. We were in our own world, no one around to save, or to slay. God, if only we could stay here. I didn’t want to face reality, not when I had him here with me now, not after thinking I’d lost him.” - L.J. Kentowski

65. “Are you okay?”“Well, I’d prefer to be in my own bedroom at home, dreaming of ponies and rainbows, but since I’m stuck here, I guess I’m as good as I can be.” - L.J. Kentowski

66. “He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.” - Sophie Jordan

67. “It was another dark and windy night. Like so many others.” - Lisa Williamson

68. “Hovering above me, directly over the twirling Merkabah, was the cosmic phenomena I hoped for but had not truly expected.” - L.Z. Marie

69. “I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn't Buffy--I was so screwed.” - Patricia Briggs

70. “Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.” - Mary Buckham

71. “Death doesn’t always want your eternal sleep. Sometimes Death just wants your eternity.” - Jacquelynn Gagne

72. “I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?” - Lindsay J. Pryor

73. “You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.” - Lindsay J. Pryor

74. “I’m not punishing you.’ ‘No?’ ‘No. You’d know if I was. Trust me.” - Lindsay J. Pryor

75. “Water matted his black hair into spikes and peppered his skin with a fresh sheen. If I shut my eyes I could still see the one who bound me, his smile bright as the white sun as he emerged from our latest dip in the sea. I fought the sudden urge to bury my face in his chest and run my fingers through that hair.” - Jennifer Silverwood

76. “He invaded my consciousness in the same way the ocean washes up on the beach, with sweeping tides of longing and regret, and with such power and raw force, I often woke with the taste of salt from my tears clinging to my skin." Joanna about Ben” - Vicki Pettersson