A Mirror Mended Quotes

“You have to make the best of whatever story you were born into, and if your story happens to suck ass, well, maybe you can do some good before you go.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“Maybe because it never occurred to me that it could be enough just to live, as happily as you can, for as long as you have.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“because everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,” which meant something like “hey, everybody dies and goes to heaven in the end, so does it really matter what miseries and disasters befall us on this mortal plane?” Cut out two little words, cover the gap with an -ly, and voilà: The inevitability of death is replaced by the promise of endless, rosy life.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“When you save someone, sometimes they save you right back.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“I’ve found that fairy tale locks are inclined to pop open at the first sign of narrative agency).”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“The mirror showed me you, out of all the possible people in all the universes,' It sounds almost like an apology. 'Why?'
'Well, what were you doing at the time?'
'I was looking into the mirror, obviously. Wishing for a way out.'
'Well, so was I. As it happens.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“The original version was “happy in the ever after,” which meant something like “hey, everybody dies and goes to heaven in the end, so does it really matter what miseries and disasters befall us on this mortal plane?” Cut out two little words, cover the gap with an -ly, and voilà: The inevitability of death is”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“everybody knows that happily is never really ever after. The truth is buried in the phrase itself, if you look it up. The original version was “happy in the ever after,” which meant something like “hey, everybody dies and goes to heaven in the end, so does it really matter what miseries and disasters befall us on this mortal plane?” Cut out two little words, cover the gap with an -ly, and voilà: The inevitability of death is replaced by the promise of endless, rosy life.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“because the hot nerd on The Good Place was right, and the meaning of life basically boils down to what we owe to each other) and less noble, potentially more honest ways (because as long as I’m saving other people I can forget, briefly, that I can’t save myself;”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“But maybe every story is a lie until it isn’t; maybe I’m not the one who has to tell it, anyway. “Do”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“I know exactly how it feels to find yourself hurtling toward a horrible ending.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“People do not like strange things. Golden eggs, talking wolves … They are seen as ill omens, portents. Acts of witchcraft.” Her eyes flicker. “They will soon want a witch to burn.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended

“if a snake fucked a tarantula and their baby died in a tar pit and was later reanimated by a necromancer who graduated at the absolute bottom of his class.”
― Alix E. Harrow, A Mirror Mended