Angela Thomas > Angela's Quotes

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve been building you a House out of my own bones. And still, you look at me with so much contempt and mistrust. You complain because there are gaps in the roof of my ribs, and you ask me to give more of myself to fill them. You want my hips to be the bowl you drink from. My shoulders, your bed. My arms, your walls. My legs, the very ground you stand on. You want your fill of my blood whenever you crave it. What more do you want from me?”
― Alexis Henderson, House of Hunger

“That is not what you want, that is what you need. You are not made out of needs, you are made out of your dreams and desires.”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“Life is nothing but riddles … we spend our whole lives puzzling them out. Sadly, as soon as we find the answer, the riddle changes. Does it not?”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“I am not Abitha. Abitha was murdered. I am the witch, and the witch cares not for your tears.”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“That is not what you want, that is what you need. You are not made out of needs, you are made out of your dreams and desires. What is it you wish and dream of?”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“The serpent closed in, closer and closer, its lethal promise igniting something deep within Abitha’s breast: the primordial need of every creature that has ever been hurt by another—the need to bite back.”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“Angels must often do dark deeds in the name of the Lord.”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“We...we could be friends.'

We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Oh- my twitchy witchy girl
I think you are so nice,
I give you bowls of porridge
And I give you bowls of ice
Cream.
I give you lots of kisses,
And I give lots of hugs,
But I never give you sandwiches
With bugs
In.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“CORALINE'S STORY
THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“As big and wide and wondrous as the world can be, everyone eventually wants to come home.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“Rule Number Seven: Enter not the forest deep.
Beyond the Bells, the dark fiends keep.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“The rightness of a name was woven into the very essence of the thing itself.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“My place in the world was nebulous, a malleable concept only given definition by the space I occupied.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“Nights like this were meant to be shared, remembered, and talked about for years. Skies like this were meant to be kissed under.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

“We are born of the Salt, we live by the Salt, and to the Salt we return.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

“Come not as you are but as you wish to be seen.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

“It still smelled like autumn here. Pine needles and cold, crisp air, bonfires and moldering leaves, the world dying as it readied to be reborn.”
― Erin A. Craig, House of Salt and Sorrows

“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Blink, and the years fall away like leaves.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Don’t call her Sunshine,” he commanded. “Why not?” If Carrion’s plan was to poke the bear, then he sure as hell knew how to go about it. But Kingfisher didn’t respond to the taunting note in his question. He just cocked his head a little, nostrils flaring, and spoke in a low rumble. “Because she is moonlight. The mist that shrouds the mountains. The bite of electricity in the air before a storm. The smoke that rolls across a battlefield before the killing starts. You have no idea what she is. What she could be. You should call her Majesty.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Nobody will ever fuck you the way I'm about to fuck you, Saeris Fane. I'm about to introduce you to all seven gods. When you meet them, don't forget to tell them I'm the one you worship on your knees.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I don't want bright and happy,” he whispered roughly. “I want real.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I'll be grateful for every second that I can say that I belong to you, Saeris Fane. Eighty years or eighteen hours. It doesn't matter to me. It'll still be the highest honor of my life.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“He is the storm. You are the peace that must come after it. Tell me, do you believe in the fates, Alchemist?”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Fuck the fates. They don’t get to decide shit for me. I decide what my future is going to be.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I'm in love with you, Saeris Fane,” he whispered quietly into my hair. “And I'm already half-mad, anyway. What's a little complicated thrown into the mix?”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver