Quotes from work

A Great and Terrible Beauty

“This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.”

“There are no safe choices. Only other choices.”

“I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.”

“How I'd love to get away from here and be someone else for a while in a place where no one knows or expects certain things from me.”

“Women who have power are always feared.”

“They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.”

“Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.”

“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”

“I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

“I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”

“May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.”

“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

“But we can't go back. We can only go forward.”

“How can my ankles and arms be obscene?”

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”

“There are no wrong decisions ― only different ones.”

“What happens if your choice is misguided,
You must try to correct it
But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t?
Then you must find a way to live with it.”

“I refuse to let the past find me here.”

“He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.”