Goldeline Quotes

“This is how you do magic, I realize. You read the stories in everything. You speak the stories of the world.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline

“I don't think stories are good or bad in themselves. It's like the way the Preacher uses the Book--and all the strange and confusing and lovely things in it--for evil, when its stories can be used just as easy for good.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline

“There's a fortune to be made off of God, no two ways about it. Preachers have the keys to heaven. They can bind and loose, lock and unlock. Awful lot of power preachers have.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline

“Tommy, still sleeping, grabs hold of my foot and kisses it once softly. My heart clenches in my chest. I don't know. It almost makes me want to stay.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline: A Dark and Wondrous Fairytale Adventure – A Booklist Top 10 Middle Grade Fantasy

“Hanging on one of the walls is a wanted poster, one of me and Tommy, our faces in black ink with WANTED printed in huge letters up top. I don't know, it makes me feel good seeing it. I can't explain why. Maybe something left over of Gruff in me, something that is a little proud to be on a poster, to have folks out searching for me. To be a wanted woman, a real bandit. If I didn't think they'd get mad, I would roll it up and keep it for myself.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline

“The nice thing about a book in a different language is that you can make it say whatever you want. The words are just pictures for your own words and all of a sudden the book is your book, it's your story that you're reading. That's how it is with all books, really, when you get down to it.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline

“Maybe sometimes the story is more about the teller, and the hearer too, than ever it is about the story itself.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline

“It isn't just the drawing," she said. "Anybody can draw a star in the dirt with a stick. It's what you put into it, what comes through you and into the stick. . . . It's the same with songs. It's not the words, but how you sing them. That's why I taught you the nothingsong. It's the most powerful of all because there aren't any words. It's about whatever your heart makes it be about.”
― Jimmy Cajoleas, Goldeline