The President and the Frog Quotes

“He’d heard people say talk was cheap, but that wasn’t true. Talk was magic, it turned the world, it was power when you knew how to fuse it with what mattered and pull your actions taut inside it like arrows.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The President and the Frog

“He was not so much surprised as he was struck by how impossible it was to ever gauge how a person existed in their skin, the way the world pressed down on them, the exact shape and weight of the pressing.”
― Carolina De Robertis, The President and the Frog