Lie Down with Dogs Quotes

“Thierry, you must learn not only when to lift a burden, but when to set it down.” He patted Shaw’s lax face with his paw. “Otherwise, your back will break under the strain, and everyone who depends on you will be left as sheep without their shepherd. Do you understand?”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“I have a plan,” she announced. “The last time you said that, we woke up in a Minotaur herd’s bull pen with no pants on.” She jostled my shoulder. “But we had fun. Right?” “They pierced my nose.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Wait. Was I really equating proof of a higher power with the existence of bacon? Yes. Yes, I was.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“A blush swept color into her cheeks. “I’m Branwen.” “Oh. Oh. Hi.” I initiated a hug that left her smiling. “I didn’t recognize you without the rock wall.” Her laughter eased the knot of anger tightening my chest.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“I didn’t agree to be Rook’s wife. It just happened. Like walking through a mountain pass and a boulder falling on top of your head.” I pushed to my feet. “The person squished underneath the rock doesn’t have to ask it for permission to keep breathing. The person can fight to get free all they want, and the rock can stuff it where the moss don’t grow.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Cool.” Mai gathered her things and bolted out the door. “Last one to the car is a rotten egg.” Diode looked alarmed. “What?” “Relax.” I chuckled. “It’s just something people say.” He licked a front paw and smoothed the fur on his face. “People are, quite frankly, ridiculous.” “No argument here.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“farther from the main drag and all the mouse-eared tourists toward the outskirts. Hotels here glittered less and slouched comfortably on the curb. This was where the theme-park veterans went to escape the marked-up lodging and themed dining.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Believe me, if I had a time machine, I would crank the dial for two years ago. I would stand next to Mable, shake a finger at you and lecture you on the dangers of dating incubi, no matter how sexy they are at first glance.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Wax paper came on a roll, in a box with a serrated edge, just like tinfoil, and Shaw loved it. He kept a roll in his messenger bag as an aid for his spellwork. He used it as a liner, made funnels for getting ingredients into tight spaces, preserved herbs he picked on roadsides, used the wax as a lubricant and to waterproof temporary workspaces.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“If I rolled my eyes any harder, I’d be examining my frontal lobe.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Mai found me in our apartment hours after the magistrates dismissed me. I was curled up on our old brocade couch wearing Eeyore pajamas with a melting pint of Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Therapy on my lap. She walked through the door as episode fourteen in season eight of Supernatural ended, just in time to catch me wiping drool off my chin from watching Dean slide on his Clark Kent-style glasses. Life didn’t get better than this. How had I forgotten Netflix was my soul mate?”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“in the grand and boneheaded tradition of men who thought they knew best for their women, he had made a bad situation much worse by lying. He made a life-altering decision for me,”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“That pretender is living on the future queen’s coin. She is saying she will do for me what she would not do for herself. She will use Faerie gold to finance my needs.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“A soul mate was the person who wielded the greatest power imaginable over you, the person who cupped your happiness in their hands. If the worst happened and the relationship crumbled, they used the power you so foolishly lent them to crush your dreams under their heels as they walked out of your life. Those same hands that had so delicately held your joy were plunged in your chest as they ripped your heart out by its roots.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“a driver who thinks stop signs are suggestions and red lights are decorative accents.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Mai wasn’t a bad driver, exactly. Her foot just had a high lead content.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Get kidnapped once, and you’re branded for life.” “You came home married, crowned, with a DayGlo prehistoric cat and two Unseelie guardians.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Djinns were liars and manipulators, much like my estranged pseudo husband.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Yeah, well, don’t beat yourself up over it.” She hip bumped me. “I didn’t catch on either.” “You were too busy leading the villagers’ pitchfork brigade.” “No pitchforks were involved.” She spread her hands. “I’m more of a trial-by-flame-thrower kind of girl.” I rolled my eyes and kept walking.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs

“Your actions are your choice, just as the actions of others are theirs.”
― Hailey Edwards, Lie Down with Dogs