O.R. Melling > Quotes

“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King

“If you're betwixt and between, trust the one with red hair.”
― O.R. Melling, The Hunter's Moon

“We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.”
― O.R. Melling, The Book of Dreams

“Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it's better somewhere else. But there ARE things worth living for. And the best part is you never know what's going to happen next.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King

“You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.”
― O.R. Melling, The Chronicles Of Faerie

“Tread softly for you tread on my dreams.
-Honor,from the Summer King.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King

“Hope burns eternal in the human heart.”
― O.R. Melling

“Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.”
― O.R. Melling, The Book of Dreams

“Those who rise first are morally superior. It's a universal law.”
― O.R. Melling, The Book of Dreams

“Where there is no respect for life, there you will find evil.”
― O.R. Melling, The Book of Dreams

“It's a booley village," Ian told her. "The islanders used to take their animals into the hills for the summ. They'd camp out in these stone huts: men, women, and children. Everyone stayed up all night, sang, told stories, watched the stars. It must have been great craic."
"How do you know this stuff?" she asked, admiringly.
"I' a bloody genius." When she threw him a look, he grinned. " I also read it in the guidebook.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King

“By that which you kill are you bound.”
― O.R. Melling, The Summer King

“To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst. A strength that would die fighting, kicking, screaming, that wouldn't stop until the last breath had been wrung from its body. The will to take one's place in the world. To say 'I am here.' To say 'I am.”
― O.R. Melling

“Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?”
― O.R. Melling

“You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.”
― O.R. Melling

“Life is a journey through a foreign land.”
― O.R. Melling

“Things get really dangerous when we start saying I’m the good one and you’re the bad one. What happens in our world is that everyone is the good fighting the good because one side thinks they’re the good and the other side’s sure they’re the good and they’re both calling the other the evil. As far as I’m concerned, the only evil is what happens when that happens.”
― O.R. Melling