Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons Quotes

“I see a miracle,” Mr. Wiggan said. His voice was quiet, as though his thoughts were still spinning around inside his head and this was their first, tentative step into audible life. “I see the power of the Divine, working its will through that woman’s voice and hands as she heals a child from a most serious injury. But if all you see there is darkness and evil,” he swung his head around to stare at Mr. Jones, brow lightly furrowed. “Then perhaps it is the state of your own heart that needs to be examined, rather than anyone else hoping and praying for this boy’s swift recovery.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“changing from a pleasant absence of color to an alarming shade of trauma.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“Momentous events had a way of doing that, she’d learned, of waiting until someone was the least prepared and the most distracted by other matters to spring themselves upon a person.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“the bricks and wrought iron covered in enough ivy and weeds to make Mildred believe the wall itself could be taken away while the greenery would remain standing, a surer barricade than anything mankind could construct.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“with a clink of empty bottles and the bow of an unforeseen character arc stretching overhead,”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“He would diminish, but not disappear entirely. Find a life that would suit him, a quiet one, with enough comfort to keep him satisfied and enough difficulty to prevent him from becoming bored.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“Dragons and magic were seen as a fine holiday roast: not something one often indulged in, but treated with veneration and excitement when it did finally appear on the table.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“Little matters such as “laws” and “morals” rarely prevented people from exacting whatever justice they saw fit when it came time, in their view, to exact it.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“All we ever have will always be the only thing I ever want, as long as I am with you.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“That manner of comfort had been injurious and stifling, like an old chair that appeared inviting but in the end offered no support, leaving one with stiff joints and an aching back, a slow deterioration; and all because it was too easy to cling to old, worn habits.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“She looked at Mrs. Merrick, still limned in the grief from her husband’s death, as though it had reshaped her much as a flooded river could carve its way through a sodden bank. One couldn’t simply pile the soil back in place once the waters had receded.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“Foolishly, she had believed that tremendous change could only be achieved over a long span of time, like the carving of mountains or the growth of a particularly large tree with aspirations towards primeval.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons

“There were things she certainly wished to say, confessions and declarations that had simmered inside of her to a point she worried had gone beyond speaking. Even now seemed like the least auspicious of times to crack open her heart, but the last few months had taught her there really was no perfect time for anything, and she could age her way to dust waiting for an opportunity to step up and allow herself to have a turn.”
― Quenby Olson, Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons