Songs of Love and Death Quotes

“Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies”
― Yasmine Galenorn, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“In the old days, people told their kids stories about the big, bad wolf, and men who were especially cruel and horrible were said to be like animals, maybe werewolves. But the things ordinary men do every day are a million times worse than anything a wolf would do. A wolf would never torture another animal to death, or lock it up. They kill out of instinct, in order to survive, because they have to - not because they just feel like it, not because they're evil. Not like us. Man is the scariest animal on the planet, but from the beginning of time, the wolf has gotten the bad rap. We've tried to pretend that evil is out there, lurking inside animals beyond the campfire, and not where it really is, in here.' He [Cody] tapped his chest.”
― Lisa Tuttle, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“Sometimes, the only way to exorcise old ghosts is to pack your bags and move in with them.”
― Yasmine Galenorn, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“Religion was no cure for dysfunction.”
― Marjorie M. Liu, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“Chili dogs, funnel cakes, fried bread, majorly greasy pizza, candy apples, ye gods. Evil food smells amazing—which is proof either that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn’t actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can’t decide.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“My feet are my chairs,” she answered crankily. “I feed on the air. I have nothing; therefore, I have everything.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“May your tongue be tied to the truth!’ they used to curse, and a fearsome curse it was.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“Evil food smells amazing—which is proof either that there is a Satan or some equivalent out there, or that the Almighty doesn’t actually want everyone to eat organic tofu all the time. I can’t decide.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“sorry, so sorry. Dying, I find there are so many people, living and dead, to whom I owe apologies.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“Lie with me here a moment and look at the sky. When we’re apart and missing one another, we can look at the sky and remember that the same sun shines on us both.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“Pain is everywhere. I failed, and we have been betrayed, attacked in my own home.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“Zaeli decided that she had better leave the beach, go back to the hotel—her proper place, a sort of zoo built to contain the foreigners, where the local people could be amused by them but not have to put up with them too”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“I had read fiction, and myths, and looked at pictures on the backs of movies that couldn’t be played anymore. But in the end, none of it meant much. Problems just had to be lived through.”
― George R.R. Martin, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love

“And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.”
― Melinda M. Snodgrass, Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love