Grace Mullins > Grace's Quotes

“Miss Sumner, may I inquire as to why you're lounging on the floor?" Mrs. Watson asked.
Miss Sumner uttered something which sounded very much like "it should be obvious" before she lifted her head. "You really must compliment your staff, Mrs. Watson. This floor is remarkably clean.”
― Jen Turano, A Change of Fortune

“Her eyes pleaded with him to understand, to try. Under that gaze, Eanrin had no option but to sit and stare at the scribbles in the dust, stare with all the intensity a cat can muster. His pupils dilated until the golden irises were like rings of eclipsed sunfire. Imraldera watched him, chewing her bottom lip and waiting.
At last the cat lashed his tail and raised his whiskered face to her. "I'm sorry, my girl. It looks to me like the Greater Stick Bug pursues the Lesser Stick Bug over the back of a giant alligator. Can't make a thing of it otherwise.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Starflower

“His princess was dusty.”
― Sarah E. Morin, Waking Beauty

“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

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.”
― Lisa Tawn Bergren, Waterfall

“Your main character not only needs a goal, she need an inner desire.”
― Jill Williamson, Go Teen Writers: How to Turn Your First Draft into a Published Book

“You are a child of God, and that means that there is great, shining beauty within you.”
― Elizabeth Camden, The Lady of Bolton Hill

“I expect she'll walk down the aisle to her groom with a book in her pocket.”
― Laurie Alice Eakes

“One would think that since Hamilton and Eliza only just got married, our mothers would be satisfied for a while, but instead they seem to have come to the conclusion that everyone needs to enter into the state of wedded bliss. Quite frankly, they've turned scary.”
― Jen Turano, A Most Peculiar Circumstance

“Arabella- Why you felt it was imperative for me to leave my house in a traveling trunk is still beyond me. You did see Zayne and Hamilton drop it, didn't you?
Theodore- They told me to tell you they were very sorry about that.
Arabella- Yes, I could tell they were dreadfully sorry, especially with all the laughter I heard through the one air hole someone considerately remembered to provide. I think gentlemen in general are deranged.”
― Jen Turano, A Most Peculiar Circumstance

“-Am I allowed to call you Grayson, or have you assumed a new identity as well?
-He's Frank.”
― Jen Turano, A Talent for Trouble

“God loves you, Meredyth, and wants to use your abilities to bless others as well as yourself. Even if you don't feel useful, you can be.”
― Dawn Crandall, The Bound Heart

“In my world," said Posy, "authors write stories, and the characters do whatever the author tells them. It's not like this--the characters don't have minds and lives of their own."
"How do you know this?" was Caris' surprising reply. The corner of her mouth turned up in a playful smile. "You do not see the characters when the pages of the book are shut. Is there never a time when you read a book for the second time and you notice something that you didn't remember from the first time? Or hear a story told, and every time it is told it grows and changes in the telling? Change is the nature of everything.”
― Ashlee Willis, The Word Changers

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Our Prince does not give his servants hopeless tasks. They sometimes do not follow an expected path, but they are never hopeless.”
― Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Moonblood

“Did you want to save me now or does later fit better into your schedule?”
― Sarah E. Morin, Waking Beauty

“Invisible people see invisible things.”
― Sarah E. Morin, Waking Beauty

“High heels, I'm convinced, are a creation of the Void and intended only to torture my poor unfortunate soles.”
― Sara Ella, Unraveling