Burning Girls and Other Stories Quotes

“Learning and skill are things to be proud of; they are the stars that light the sky of one’s lifetime.”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls

“This is the nature of time — it dilates during suffering and also during joy, rushes through our fingers into the sea when we seek to hold it tight; when we are depressed, the hours open up indefinitely as we are condemned to endure yet another day of consciousness, and then, and then, we look up and realize that we have lost weeks, months, even years to the sticky-fingered destroyer of joy, never to be regained.”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls and Other Stories

“Sometimes you need more than herbs and spells of protection. Sometimes it is not enough merely to defend.”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls

“there is no heart in her chest, only a steel gear”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls

“You will eat roots. Eventually you will eat stones.”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls and Other Stories

“That's the thing about depression; it inures you to wonder, even to fear. Skulls are chattering and squealing and all you can do is sigh and accept that they're right, that your best days ARE behind you, to agree that you've gotten too old and fat and aren't good for anything but making blintzes, and blintzes are delicious, but they are no adventure, and you are unable to recognize the adventure going on around you.”
― Veronica Schanoes, Burning Girls and Other Stories