Jo Denning > Jo's Quotes

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I want my magic to coat your skin and permeate the air you breathe. I want to own you. I want you to think about me all day, every day, obsessively the way I think about you.”
― Josie Darling, Enchant

“But it was Parrish’s eyes that were most jarringly attractive. At first glance, I’d assumed they were brown. They were, in fact, black. Not a dull, matte black but a deep ebony. Like a starless sky at midnight, there was a suggestion of some other color behind the darkness of his irises—indigo or violet, perhaps.”
― Josie Darling, Enchant

“She remembered that time fondly with warm sunlight and riotous colors. Aqua ocean waves licking golden shores. Craggy cliff faces dusted with emerald. Orange brick buildings and fields of lavender.”
― Josie Darling, Enchant

“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.
Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.
Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.
Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.
Elves are terrific. They beget terror.
The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.
No one ever said elves are nice.
Elves are bad.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies