A Spindle Splintered Quotes

“Maybe the universe doesn’t naturally bend toward justice either; maybe it’s only the weight of hands and hearts pulling it true, inch by stubborn inch.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I see her choosing now whether to make her love into a cage or a key.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Sleeping Beauty is the worst fairy tale, pretty much any way you slice it.
It’s aimless and amoral and chauvinist as shit. It’s the fairy tale that feminist scholars cite when they want to talk about women’s passivity in historical narratives. (“She literally sleeps through her own climax,” as my favorite gender studies professor used to say. “Double entendre fully intended.”)...

..Even among the other nerds who majored in folklore, Sleeping Beauty is nobody’s favorite. The romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; basic girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only the dying girls like Sleeping Beauty.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I should have spent more time thinking about your life than worrying about your death.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I never stopped trying to save you, so don't you fucking dare stop trying to save yourself.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“let’s not pretend girls with swords don’t get shit done.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“If you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I'm turning away when Prince Harold says, his voice thick and fleshy through his swollen nose, "I don't understand." His eyes are on Primrose and Charm, on the place where their hands are joined together so tightly they look like a single creature.

"Well, Harold," I say gently. "They're lesbians.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Their love has hung above me like the sun, a burning brightness I could survive only if I never looked straight at it, never flew too close.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Hey, it's okay, alright? I'll walk with you, every step. You won't be alone." We might not be able to fix our bullshit stories, but surely we can be less lonely inside them, here at the end. "Just go to sleep. I'm right here.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“In that moment he reminds me of Charm’s parents, or maybe my own: a person whose love is a burdensome thing, a weight dragging always at your ankles.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Even among the other nerds who majored in folklore, Sleeping Beauty is nobody's favorite. Romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; vanilla girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only dying girls like Sleeping Beauty.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I riffle through my mental box of inspirational quotes and come up with a Dylan Thomas line that I actually know from Interstellar. “Do not go gentle into that good night, princess.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I don't know about the moral arc of the universe, but our arcs sure as hell don't bend towards justice. Unless we change them. Unless we grab our narratives by the ear and drag them kicking and screaming towards better endings. Maybe the universe doesn't naturally bend toward justice either; maybe it's only the weight of hands and hearts pulling it true, inch by stubborn inch.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“This is a stone-cold lie, but I don’t call her on it. Some lies are important.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I hope you find your happily ever after, or whatever."
"Already did. I'm just looking for a better once upon a time.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“It's one of the rules for dying girls: if you like something, like it hard, because you don't have a lot of time to waste.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“This time, when I press my finger to the end of a splintered spindle, I’m smiling.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I can't remember if they did the "speak now or forever hold your peace" thing in Medieval times, or if it's one of those Victorian inventions, like brides wearing white or homophobia.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I'm at least three-fourths straight, but her lashes are very long, and very golden, and I'm not made of stone.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“You know it wasn't originally a spinning wheel in the story?' I offer, because alcohol transforms me into a chatty Wikipedia.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“All of them stepped out of their own narratives to save someone else”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“But suddenly I saw her as my mere reflection: a girl with a shitty story. A girl whose choices were stolen from her.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Do not go gentle into that good night, princess. I beg of you.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I’ve never thought about the future. I never had one.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I’ve always resented people for trying to save me, but maybe this is how it works, maybe we save one another.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“Bruises fade, after all.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight in the real world, but we’re not in the real world, are we?”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“it seems that some dying girls follow different rules and dedicate themselves to saving others, rather than themselves.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered

“suddenly I saw her as my mere reflection: a girl with a shitty story. A girl whose choices were stolen from her.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Spindle Splintered