Spellbound Quotes

“Love always matters”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Gwen" He said my name like a prayer, but one for patience and not of contrition. "Do you believe I could so much as say a cruel word to you and mean it?”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“I wanted to cherish you, dreamed of the moment I entered you, and imagined watching your eyes widen as I filled you. But that's not what you want, is it?”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“There was nothing tender in our joining, nothing loving in our caresses, merely pure need and desire so shar it made each stroke and pleasure an agony I held onto with every shard on consciousness”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Can you...can you please take me away from myself? I can't stand to be alone inside my body anymore.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“His heart" I lied "I will take it from him and hold it in my two hands whenever I choose. If you will offer yours on a platter, as well, I will happily take it from you”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“If you were wondering, faeries do sweat, and it smells like spring rain.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“There are the Sunset Lands, Gwen. You must stop making mortal assumptions, You cannot trust anything here to make sense or be as it seems”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“You certainly won't get your sister back if you make yourself too dangerous to keep alive”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Think of it this way: if a unicorn appeared in your townhouse and asked you for a treat, what would your response be?”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“The flood toppled every stronghold left inside me. Amidst the raging waters, there was no room for self-pity, anger, or betrayal. And somehow, even the hole in my chest proved not to be endless once it was filled with tears.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“And he would do it. No one knew me as well as he did, knew which buttons to push. He would drag me back from the edge, kicking and screaming. But all I wanted to do was fall.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Because I will take your anger, your free, your pain, even your hatred. But I cannot let you despair, Gwen. It would be the end of you, and I will not allow that.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“I would not cry. There was nothing left inside me. Crying was for people who still had a bit of their soul left to leak out of their eyes. I was just...empty.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“This pain was so sharp that I did not feel the cut. I only knew that I was bleeding”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“I'm fine, Mothe, but I am not well”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“He wore no corn, but the antlers rising from his head were decorated with dangling golden chains and jewels that caught and refracted the light into spinning rainbows. Had I seen nothing and no one but him, I would still have been spellbound.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“It was less like a forest, and more like a painting of a forest. An idea, not reality, yet enchanting nonetheless”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“She was petite, elegant, and charming, but possessed of an indomitable will. That combination made her one of the most dangerous people I had ever known, You could not tell her no, because you did not realize you wanted to”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“That many things can be true all at the same time, and sometimes it is only circumstances that decide whether an action was good or bad. Good men can do bad things, and bad men can do good things. People are more complex than simply good or bad.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Let me ask you a question, boy. Do you think a villain ever asks himself if he is a bad man?”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Flabbergasted, Inspector?" she asked, leaning back and folding her arms across her chest with a smile. "I do not blame you. Don't get used to it, however. I so rarely have reason to apologize that this may be your only opportunity to hear the words. I suggest savoring it.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“I'm going to make him regret ever even thinking about touching my boy.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Because having a key to a door and opening a door are two very different things, Sally, Matilda was right about that. What she did not say is once you have opened the door, it can never be shut again. And when you have tasted the power of changing the natural work as you see fit, you might like the flavor of it too much to care who or what the open door lets through.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“Knowledge is a door. And the sooner you learn that, the closer you will be to wisdom. Knowledge, true knowledge, must be earned if it is to mean anything, Sarah.”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“You are rather saucy for a housekeeper”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound

“No matter how frustrated, irate, or furious I became, I would never throw a book”
― Nicole McKeon, Spellbound