Xan Quotes

“Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men

“And she looked up at the stone just as a seam appeared down the middle and the two sides swung inward, like great stone doors.
Not like stone doors, Xan thought. They are stone doors.
The shape of the stone still stood like a doorway against the blue sky, but the entrance itself opened into the a very dim corridor where a set stone steps disappeared into the dark.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“I won't forget," she said
"You will surely forget, Xan. Have you not met yourself?”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon

“Oh, piffle.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Girl Who Drank the Moon