C.K. Beggan > C.K.'s Quotes

“History does not keep all lessons.”
― C.K. Beggan, Girl of Shadow and Glass

“But when do I ever listen to anybody? Nothing is going to get in my way; my life was always going to be short. Not even the murky water that’s lapping up my nose and into my eyes is going to stop me. Not even the shadows. I’m going home.”
― C.K. Beggan, Girl of Shadow and Glass

“Sorcery ends when the people who made it are gone.”
― C.K. Beggan, Girl of Shadow and Glass

“But what is history if not tales of our mistakes? And what is the present but a sum of them?”
― C.K. Beggan, Girl of Shadow and Glass

“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library."
"The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“As per usual, trouble comes in several directions at once.”
― Garth Nix, Lirael

“I believe in deeds, not words.”
― Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure

“Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.”
― Intisar Khanani, Sunbolt

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Touchstone watched, suddenly conscious that he probably only had five seconds left to be alone with Sabriel, to say something, to say anything. Perhaps the last five seconds they ever would have alone together.
I am not afraid, he said to himself.
"I love you," he whispered. "I hope you don't mind.”
― Garth Nix, Sabriel

“Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.”
― Garth Nix, Abhorsen

“You're some kind of thief, then?"
"That a very narrow-minded way of looking at it. I prefer to think of myself as a merchant of delicate tasks.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“Find out what you really are, what really exists in this world. Come to Daevabad where even a drop of Nahid blood will bring you honor and wealth beyond your imagining. Your own infirmary, the knowledge of a thousand previous healers at your fingertips. Respect.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“It looked like the type of place people came to be forgotten”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“So you just live quietly with these powers?" he demanded. "Haven't you ever wondered why you have them? Suleiman's eye... you could be overthrowing governments, and instead you steal from peasants!”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation, like a man clinging to a ledge. "We run.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire.”
― Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

“There are women who will forgive a great deal for a moment of kindness from a handsome man, but Daisy and the other older girls who had taken me under their wings had taught me not to be one of them.”
― Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

“He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did.”
― Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince