M.H. Elrich > M.H.'s Quotes

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?"
"But you shall meet me, dear one," said Aslan.
"Are -are you there too, Sir?" said Edmund.
"I am," said Aslan. "But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“Courage like Daniel’s only comes from God.” Leith leaned a hand against the tabletop. “Daniel didn’t keep praying and trusting because he had courage. He had courage because he prayed and trusted.”
― Tricia Mingerink, Deny

“When you kill me, I want you to know I don't fear you. My God is stronger than fear.
-Leith Torren”
― Tricia Mingerink, Defy

“What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.”
― Jaye L. Knight, Samara's Peril

“It doesn't seem right or to serve any purpose at all. However, if there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that, even when nothing makes any sense to us, there's still a purpose. And as hard as it is at times, we have to believe that and let it carry us through.”
― Jaye L. Knight

“Perhaps no answer would ever be forthcoming, but if he had learned one thing in the last couple of weeks, it was that they must move on. Dwelling in the past would accomplish nothing.”
― Jaye L. Knight, Samara's Peril

“The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Inside each of us is a desire to be loved, a desire to be chosen, called out of the crowd, and loved for who we are. Seeking these desires, we all become performers, morphing ourselves into whatever role may earn us a place in the hearts of those around us.”
― Shannon Kubiak Primicerio, The Divine Dance: If The World Is Your Stage, Who Are You Performing For?

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“I'll never tell you to stop loving. You see, I believe in hopeless love. Oh yes. I believe in it with all my heart, though you may discount the heart of an old nanny like me. For real love brings pain. Real love means sacrifices and hurts and all the thousand shocks of life. But it also means beauty, true beauty.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Moonblood

“Etania felt it. A tugging in her heart, confirmed by the glow of the Mark. This way, Melchizedek whispered, and Etania followed.”
― M.H. Elrich, Etania's Calling

“Jakin, Melchizedek said, and his incandescent hammer glowed. Rely on me.
He chuckled. Etania isn’t the only one who needs to surrender. Jakin closed his eyes and prayed: Your will be done.
With that, he teleported away from Strata.”
― M.H. Elrich, Etania's Calling

“Why are you telling me this?” he demanded, in a whisper.
“To see your face. It is the face that I see every day in the mirror. All the women that have been used by you see it, too: the face of a betrayer.”
― M.H. Elrich, Etania's Calling

“The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride And Prejudice

“One word, Ma'am," he said, coming back from the fire; limping, because of the pain. "One word. All you've been saying is quite right, I shouldn't wonder. I'm a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won't deny any of what you said. But there's one more thing to be said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things-trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that's a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we're leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for Overland. Not that our lives will be very long, I should think; but that's a small loss if the world's as dull a place as you say.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

“What is that thing?' Matt asked. '...Is this object…alien?'
'Very much so,' Samantha remarked, half in wonder, half in sorrow. 'It is an alien gunship, manned by an alien crew but for one man—one person from Earth who was forsaken but has now returned to destroy his home.”
― C.E. Stone, Starganauts

“Do you ever stop and wonder at all of this?' Kaity asked, gesturing around them while a robot rolled by.
'After what we’ve been through?' her husband said wryly. 'We are, after all, space travelers. We’ve voyaged light-years from Earth, to settle in lands both terrifying and fantastic. Little fazes us anymore...”
― C.E. Stone

“Recognition blossomed into understanding. Her own stubborn pride would be her downfall. Only surrender would save her.
(Samantha, 'Retribution')”
― C.E. Stone

“The world is coming to an end,' Samantha said factually. 'Today is the last time we’ll walk upon this terrestrial soil. What bother are bills, when Earth is to be decimated?”
― C.E. Stone, Starganauts

“Two thousand saved? You’re a revival meeting in a red dress!
(Kaity, to Samantha)”
― C.E. Stone, Retribution

“The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever”
― Westminster Shorter Catechism

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works