Courtney Ranger > Courtney's Quotes

“If He could weave the tapestry of time, if He could predetermine each person’s path, He could hold her safe and fast in the storm.

Tears burned Zinnia’s eyes. In the breaking, in the pain, in the questions, He never left her.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Reaction

“I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“And if doing what’s right makes someone angry with me, then may I cause rage and fury wherever I go.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Captive Kingdom

“The Beginning was always with her, no matter how alone she felt.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Crown

“That reaction is totally uncalled for. When have I ever had a bad idea?”

“Would you prefer the list in writing or verbally?”
― Madisyn Carlin, Crown

“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Stop waiting for Friday
for summer,
for someone to fall in love with you,
for life.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now!”
― Anonymous

“He didn’t kidnap me. I claimed him!”
― Abigail Kay Harris, A Noble Assassin

“There was no way he could fight his way out, not this time.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Reflection

“Do you need me to carry you?”

“I’d rather make an angry badger’s acquaintance.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Resistance

“What’s the point of gaining peace if it costs us our freedom? I won’t trade the one for the other.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Runaway King

“You be careful," he replied. "I've stayed out of trouble for two weeks. You don't seem able to avoid it for two minutes."
I laughed. "I can easily avoid it for two minutes. It's the third minute that always seems to challenge me.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Scourge

“She’d heard of love at first sight, but very few mentioned distaste at first sight.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Resistance

“If she had to choose between saving me and a copperhead, she’d choose the copperhead.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Resistance

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“They said you’d make it. I agreed. You’re too annoying to die.”
― Madisyn Carlin, A Silent Hope

“After four months, grief shouldn’t hurt this much. Shouldn’t threaten to rend her heart in a thousand pieces.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Reaction

“Calaine lifted her chin a smidge and resisted the urge to smooth her hands over her skirt. Ma always said one’s personality made the outfit—a sour disposition made the prettiest silk look unsightly, but a pleasing smile could cause the rattiest homespun dress to look like an elegant gown. So, instead of returning the man’s glare, she offered a tiny smile. She would win him over, this crabby curmudgeon, and work for his unpleasant self until she raised enough money for Jared’s cure.”
― Madisyn Carlin, A Silent Hope

“Since when was truth marked as treason?

- DECEIVED”
― Madisyn Carlin, Deceived

“Put me down or I’ll stab your leg.”

“First, don’t threaten someone saving your life. Makes me less inclined to help. Second, do you really think you, a Leorin, can intimidate me? You’re like a gnat, cub. A very annoying, hairbrained, numbskulled gnat.”
― Madisyn Carlin, A Silent Hope

“Perseverance is crucial to surviving life, my darling girl. If you give up at the first sign of trouble, you will fail all that is thrown at you. And you, Isadora, will have much thrown your way.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Crown

“It was when I was happiest that I longed most. . . . Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The Beginning allows us to walk through the fire, but He is forever holding our hand through that fire. It is not by our own strength we persevere, but His.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Iron

“He allows us to walk through the fire, but He is always holding our hand through that fire.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Iron

“I motioned Kestra over to the table. “Come eat.” “After Trina has breathed on it? I’d rather eat off the floor.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Traitor's Game

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Perhaps tomorrow had never been meant for them at all. Perhaps tomorrow belonged to God.”
― Hannah Linder, When Tomorrow Came

“All-she-could-eat snacks? The circus really was the best place in the world.”
― M.T. DeSantis, Once Upon a Broken Sky

“How far would the dragon obey? The show only had the creature dance and impress, but if pushed, would it fight? Ensnare? Die?”
― M.T. DeSantis, Once Upon a Broken Sky