Heidi Schulz > Heidi's Quotes

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird

“Maybe anger only needs the right melody, the right rhythm to be beautiful.”
― Emma Trevayne, Coda

“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot in your chest. At first it's tiny, like a spot of light in a dark room, but then it builds, pouring through you. And the next thing you know, everything from your forehead down to your fingers and toes is on fire. You feel like the hot, heavy knot in your chest is turning into a bubble. It's full of everything good in the world, and if you don't do something--if you don't run or dance or shout to everyone in the world about this music you've just heard--it'll explode.”
― Claire Legrand, The Year of Shadows

“What did you say to me Itsy? The day when you broke your silence?"
Itsy shrugged and shuffled back into her own apartment.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“We've lost so much. We might lose more. But for now I can sit here, under the trees and sky, and pull music from the strings.”
― Emma Trevayne, Coda

“Cooper smelled damage a mile away. He knew she'd never run. She'd never tell.”
― Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy

“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I heard that misery loves company, but I suspected it would get along with pie, too.”
― Jessica Lawson, The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson

“The thing about friends is, you never know when you might need them. It's always best to keep them imprisoned nearby.”
― Heidi Schulz, The Pirate Code

“Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Don't let anything get in your way.”
― Heidi Schulz, The Pirate Code

“And here you are, a stripling of a boy who has already survived the worst this land can throw at a body, but suddenly ready to give up after one mistake?” Dr. Snailwater’s voice grew fierce. “You should be grateful some things can be fixed.”
“What if I can’t?” Jack asked in a small voice.
“Then you try again!”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

“The toy soldiers gathered a few more flakes of dust on their shelves; the books stayed shut and squeezed together, telling their stories only to themselves between their covers.”
― Emma Trevayne, Flights and Chimes and Mysterious Times

“Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," a fairy drops down dead,' Jocelyn recited.
'Something similar happens when a child turns that doubt inwards. The part of her that can do anything fades away. In time, and fed enough disbelief, it will die.”
― Heidi Schulz, Hook's Revenge