Small Favors Quotes

“There's a power in names, don't you think? Once your name is given away, you can't help but be pulled along by those who have it.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“As big and wide and wondrous as the world can be, everyone eventually wants to come home.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“Be careful what you say in the dark of the night, Ellerie Downing, lest you promise something you might regret.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“We were like little wooden puzzle pieces at McCleary’s store. Just little bits of colorful chaos on their own, but once they were snapped into place, you could see they were meant to be together all along.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“Rule Number Seven: Enter not the forest deep.
Beyond the Bells, the dark fiends keep.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“The rightness of a name was woven into the very essence of the thing itself.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“You won’t. You’re too smart for that, and you care too much. You’ll make mistakes—we all do—but you care enough to keep fighting. That’s the truly important part. You care too much to quit.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“My place in the world was nebulous, a malleable concept only given definition by the space I occupied.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“We can’t talk about the things we really want to, so people invent other things to discuss.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“It was a marvel to me, the way these little insects could see the bigger picture and strive for the greater good, forsaking their own needs to protect the hive.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“Contrition means nothing if it's forced" -Gran”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“I like knowing the proper names for things. The world truly seems more ordered when you know what to call everything, doesn’t it?” “It does,” I admitted.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“It just seems silly to me, I guess, naming something so very far away. Those stars don’t know our myths. Why would they want to be named after heroes and legends they’ve never heard of?” “I think they’d be happy to know they’re so often thought of,” I reasoned. “Their names give them importance. Otherwise they’re just a scattering of light up in that big, vast void.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“There’s a power in names, don’t you think? Once your name is given away, you can’t help but be pulled along by those who have it.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“His eyes were warm and amber, happy and wholly unaware of all the exquisitely horrible things I'd dreamed up for him in the woods.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“I feel as though I’m making up everything as I go along….What if I fail?” “Oh, Ellerie,” he said, and cupped my cheek, rubbing his thumb across it. His hand was deliciously warm, and I fought the urge to lean into it, seeking more of his touch. “You won’t. You’re too smart for that, and you care too much. You’ll make mistakes—we all do—but you care enough to keep fighting. That’s the truly important part. You care too much to quit.”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors

“Be careful what you say in the dark of the night, Ellerie Downing, lest your promise something you might regret”
― Erin A. Craig, Small Favors