Edith > Edith's Quotes

“There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.”
― E. L. Konigsburg

“Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz, Splendors and Glooms

“This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.”
― Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

“You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.”
― Louis Sachar, Sideways Stories from Wayside School

“It’s all going to be okay. She would like to hear that now, even if it was a lie. Because some lies are beautiful. Stories do not tell you that.”
― Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

“I believe that the world isn't always what we can see...I believe there are secrets in the woods. And I believe that goodness wins out...So, if someone's changed overnight - by witch curse or poison apple or were-turtle - you have to show them what's good. You show them love. That works a surprising amount of the time.”
― Anne Ursu, Breadcrumbs

“He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them.”
― Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia

“It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.”
― Katherine Paterson, Puente Hasta Terabithia