Erin Jenkins > Erin's Quotes

“I’ve waited for nearly eight hundred years for Julian to find someone for me to shop with. This is my treat,” she said, waving off my objection. “Now, let’s get lunch.”
― Geneva Lee Albin, Filthy Rich Vampire

“- You know what really brings the storms, Geillis?
- What?
- A storm arrives at the exact second when a girl learns she'll never be free”
― Jenni Fagan, Hex

“kissing girls is one of the top ten reasons to be alive.”
― Trinity Nguyen, A Bánh Mì for Two

“Admirable,” Astaroth had once said. “We could stand to learn a few things about ruthless manipulation and one-sided bargains from American healthcare insurers.”
― Sarah Hawley, A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

“Trust literal demons to be kinder to their children than the American education system.”
― Sarah Hawley, A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

“See me. See me for who I am. I am magic. I am human. I am inhuman. See me. I am a boy. I am a girl. I am everything and nothing in between. See me. You do. You see me. You recoil in fear. You scream in anger. See me. I bleed. I ache. You see me, and you wish you hadn’t. You wish I was invisible. Out of sight, out of mind. Unseen, faded, muted. You want my color. You want my joy. You want a monochrome world with monochrome beliefs. You see me, and you want to take it all away. But you can’t. You want me lost, but I am found in the breaths I take, in the spaces between heartbeats. I am found because I refuse to be in black and white, or any shade of gray. I am color. I am fire. I am the sun, and I will burn away the shadows until only light remains. And then you will have no choice but to see”
― T.J. Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea

“These are the wild women who run barefoot through the meadow, who teach new songs to the birds, who howl at the moon together. Wild women are their own kind of magic.”
― Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch

“Everyone should have this, he thought, and perhaps, at the end, everyone does. Perhaps in their time of dying, everyone rises.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“His remaining weight wanted him on the earth; his muscles insisted he rise above it.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“I am so glad to be alive on this day, he thought.”
― Stephen King, Elevation

“Slowly the pattern of our days grew, and shaped itself into a happy life.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“What’s the point of magic if you don’t get to use it for silly shit anyway.”
― Sara Raasch, The Entanglement of Rival Wizards

“I’m sure you’re right about that,” Kim said. “But I really can’t bring myself to regret the man you might have been, given the one you are.”
― K.J. Charles, The Sugared Game

“I was a child with a child’s attention span. Many adults think this is no more than a butterfly’s, flittering from thought to thought, but they have forgotten how, in some children, it is as sharp and pointed as a stiletto. Mine was focused now.”
― T. Kingfisher, Hemlock & Silver

“I can’t draw you out of your anguish by arguing that it isn’t there. I can’t talk truth by telling favorable lies.”
― John Wiswell, Wearing the Lion

“No young woman of means has gone through her entire life without at least once surveying her opportunities and wishing for a dragon instead.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“I'm not intimidated by books. I would crush them in a fight.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“Romance was awful. She couldn't even murder people anymore.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“This was the same mistake so many humans made: believing someone would leap over trauma when it hurt them badly enough.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“I know some of your kindness comes from pain. Scabs mistaken for flesh.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“Also, I was meaner than all of them put together, in my sunshiny way.”
― Kate Elliott, The Witch Roads

“ Joy is your calling.”
― Kate Elliott, The Witch Roads