Anna Melomed > Anna's Quotes

“The three of you have one solution to every problem. Murder. No key fits every lock.” Cardan gives us all a stern look, holding up a long-fingered hand with my stolen ruby ring still on one finger. “Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Seelie and Unseelie, Wild Folk and Shy Folk, I am glad to have you march under my banner, glad of your loyalty, grateful for your honor.” His gaze goes to me. “To you, I offer honey wine and the hospitality of my table. But to traitors and oath breakers, I offer my queen’s hospitality instead. The hospitality of knives.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“This is absurd. This is awful. This isn’t how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Faerie might be beautiful, but its beauty is like a golden stag’s carcass, crawling with maggots beneath his hide, ready to burst.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“With the fake cheese and fake sour cream and fake meat? Mmm. Delicious.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Catwoman: Soulstealer

“And two
sweaty try hards”
― Sean Percival, Goodnight Fortnite (Unofficial): A parody to make them stop playing and go to bed

“A balloon goes up but eventually comes down and you can always blow it back up again!”
― -Cat

“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis n. [mass noun] an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust.”
― Angus Stevenson, Oxford Dictionary of English

“I love the feeling of a real book in my hands, but I hate having the light on and physically holding the book and turning the pages, especially when I am tired. EBooks make everything so much easier. I can store thousands of them in my device’s library and read whichever one I’m in the mood for that night.”
― Charlotte Byrd, Tell Me to Stop

“How dare you touch my cookies, you bastard!” Jason said in utter disgust before popping the cookie in his mouth and heading back to his house.”
― R.L. Mathewson, Playing for Keeps

“This is kidnapping!” she sputtered in disbelief. “No, it’s not.” “Yes, it is!” “Nope.”
― R.L. Mathewson, Playing for Keeps

“Come, meat! Let this farce end! My people are hungry for manflesh!” “That’s what she said,” Joe whispered before shoveling more popcorn into his face.”
― Dakota Krout, Regicide

“Ran into the wrong end of a knife.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“That’s it, lad,” the old man breathed. “Lie still. This will hurt.”
― C.J. Aaron, Tribute at the Gates

“And tomorrow, in your first combat, you shall prove your valor and be decapitated!”
― Rick Riordan, The Sword of Summer