Kelly Link

Quotes by Kelly Link

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Editor and author · American

American editor and author

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inspiration reading magic books zombies friendship humor scrabble jealousy clowns monsters gravity marriage buffy-the-vampire-slayer edgar-allan-poe fantasy grave-digging macabre vicks-vaporub young-adult writing fairy-tales relationships death fairy-tale witch love suffering children-s-books cooking

“It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.”
— Kelly Link
books libraries

“On old maps, cartographers would draw strange beasts around the margins and write phrases such as "Here be dragons." That's where monsters exist: in the unmapped spaces, in the places where we have...”
— Kelly Link
favourite-quotes monsters

“Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”
— Kelly Link
books reading scrabble

“Sometimes a friendship is more like a war.”
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friendship

“There were two girls in a room. They were reading a book… Look again, and the room is empty. The end of the story will have to wait.”
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reading

“Fox is a television character, and she isn’t dead yet. But she will be, soon. She’s a character on a television show called The Library. You’ve never seen the Library on TV, but I bet you wish you ...”
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magic

“Her chest feels very tight, as if she's suddenly full of poison. You have to keep it all inside. Like throwing yourself on a bomb to save everyone else. Except you're the bomb.”
— Kelly Link
jealousy

“There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a littl...”
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clowns zombies