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Retelling Quotes

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Brigid Kemmerer
“This early in the season, the other girls would sit by the hearth and gaze at me over crystal goblets, while I’d pour wine and tell stories with just enough devilishness to make them blush. If I put a crystal goblet in this one’s hand, she’d likely smash it and use the shards to cut me.”
Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Christina Henry
“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things and grown-up things.”
Christina Henry, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook

Jennifer Donnelly
“What's done is done. Whether to you, or by you, and you cannot change it.
But what's not done is not done.
And there, both hope and hazard lie.”
Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister

Alexa Donne
“Sometimes the loneliest you could be was surrounded by people who didn't understand you.”
Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

Kerri Maniscalco
“Lord help the girl he set those eyes on for good. His boyish vulnerability was a weapon, powerful and disarming.”
Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

Emma Donoghue
“My future was about to happen.”
Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

L.L. McKinney
“Says the dude who carries around a big fuck-off sword.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“He was going to find this kitten had claws.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

David Clawson
“I’m always amazed by how readily people judge the right and wrong of things they know only from the outside. Honestly, it kind of pisses me off.”
David Clawson, My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen

Zoey Hunter
“It is hard to face the truth, Bel,” Lux says. “Only the courageous ever do.”
Zoey Hunter, Beauty and the Vampire

Sarah Diemer
“Do you think, for a moment," she whispered, "that I would have done anything differently? That I could have chosen anything but this, now?" Her dark eyes were alive, bright, shining. "I would suffer any lie, Persephone, for you.”
Sarah Diemer, The Dark Wife

Jorge Luis Borges
“But I will relate what happened with absolute honesty; that, perhaps, will help me understand it. After all, when one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.”
Jorge Luis Borges, Brodie's Report

Zoey Hunter
“My trouble is, I have stopped believing in miracles. Or rather, I have learned from experience that what is at first touted as a miracle, soon shows itself to be a curse.”
Zoey Hunter, Beauty and the Vampire

J.M.  Sullivan
“...why did you stick with me?”

“That’s easy, Alice,” he said. His amber eyes melted into hers. “It’s the first rule of chess: always protect your queen.”
J.M. Sullivan, Alice

David Clawson
“I will say this about that moment when you realize your worst nightmare has proven to be reality— it can be oddly comforting. After all, once you’ve hit rock bottom and lived, there’s only one place you can go, and that’s up.”
David Clawson, My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen

Sarah Diemer
“You saved my life, Persephone."
"I didn't..."
"You are, even now.”
Sarah Diemer, The Dark Wife

L.L. McKinney
“Oh, I don't know. The human world has its charms. Cotton candy for instance."
"Yeah, and it's got plenty of problems."
"It's got you.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

David Clawson
“but the human heart has a bad habit of being hopeful.”
David Clawson, My Fairy Godmother is a Drag Queen

Gena Showalter
“Spočítala jsem to. Jsem si na osmdesát tři procent jistá, že můj výpočet je na stoprocent správný.”
Gena Showalter

Rae D. Magdon
“They say that love is blind, but I know better. Lovers see, but choose to look away”
Rae D. Magdon, The Second Sister

Eugene Y. Evasco
“Sino ang nagwagi sa sagupaan, sa digmaang iyon? Ang malalaking hayop kaya na sumisipa, nangangalmot, at nandadamba? O ang maliliit na hayop na bumubulong, sumisitsit, nanunuka, at nangangagat?”
Eugene Y. Evasco, Si Haring Kuliglig at Si Haring Leon

L.L. McKinney
“Blessed with increased speed and agility, incredible strength and dexterity, abilities no normal human being possessed... And she trips over a mop.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“Fucking white people."
"Really?"
"Have you met any? They're a mess. They only believe, like, in three seasonings.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“If this were ancient times, wars would be waged for that gorgeous piece of man meat.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“Deep in thought. And not a pleasant one-you look like someone just curdled your whompus.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“But for what it's worth, you're my hero.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“And Hatta was a lying liar who lies!”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“Heart, Eye, starting to sound like we're building Frankenstein.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

L.L. McKinney
“Hey."
Hey. Hey? That was it? "Hey." Alice, apparently, didn't have better.”
L.L. McKinney, A Blade So Black

“You have a week to find a mortal to love you. A week.”
J. R. Koop