Author Note Quotes

“Finally, if you're wondering if it counts and it feels like it counts, it counts.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“And for all the people waiting for permission to level up enough before they start working on something big and scary--just go in. Don't be like me.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“So while I dedicated this book to myself, it’s also dedicated to you. Male or female, young or old, if you’re reading this book, then you’re also that child reading by flashlight and dreaming of other worlds. Don’t be scared of her, that inner Beauty, or her dreams. Let her out. She’s you, and she’s me, and she’s magic.
There’s no such thing as living happily ever after—there’s only living. We make the choice to do it happily.
You are the Firebird. And above everything else, I’m most grateful for you.”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

“After a childhood reading fairy tales and myths, is it any wonder that when I began to write my own stories I included fairy tales? Fairy tales are storytelling at its most basic. They’ve been with mankind for as long as people have told stories to each other. Fairy tales speak to something intrinsic in humans—they touch our most primitive selves. How else to explain that the Cinderella story is told in nearly every society on earth? To think of fairy tales as merely stories for children is to ignore thousands of years when fairy tales were used to teach morality, to warn, and to entertain both children and adults.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, Clever John

“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was worse than physical segregation. This was psychological segregation. It wasn't that we were taught not to associate with blacks: close association was unavoidable. Instead, we were taught to see half the population not as individuals but as functionaries - maids, yardmen, etc.”
― Jonathan Odell, The Healing