30 quotes found
“Even a witch wants sympathy.”
“Witches dont look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”
“Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”
“Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.”
“There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable.”
“I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list”
“If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?”
“Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be happy simply eating a hot meal with a great deal of chew to it? Maybe happiness is a ...”
“I think about the Old Ones, that they have a past but no history. I think about the inevitability of death, and whether its not that very inevitability that inspires us to take photographs and make...”
“This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pill...”
“Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story...”
“I have a theory about how she might have managed to pull off such a feat. It comes in the form of an equation: Love + Fear = Herculean Strength. Its how mothers come to fling runaway motorcars from...”
“You could write your way into happiness. It might not be the happiness you'd experience if Eldric pushed Leanne from a cliff, but there's a firefly glimmer in writing something that would please Rose.”
“But witchy magic doesnt listen to please and pretty please, and anyway, I didnt really care. I only pretended to care because not caring makes me a monster.”
“I explained we lost the porch to the flood. 'Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, it's good enough for a clergyman. ...”
“Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you dont know how you got from one to the next.”
“You can outrun your memories, but sometime, you will have to stop. And when you do, there will always be Stepmother, waiting to be remembered.”
“Perhaps you should put your head down. I knew this was the thing to do, although Ive never fainted and I dont intend to.”
“Theres such a thing as being irritatingly ethical, said Eldric. Thats you, right now. Thats a pleasant change. Witches are rarely accused of being irritatingly ethical.Ive swigged. I handed the bot...”
“When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano ...”
“Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.”
“Now thats true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.”
“We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Comm...”
