Margaret > Margaret's Quotes

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I don't know. I don't actually remember anything from before the surgery."

His eyebrows rose, his blue eyes sucking in all the light of the room. "The cybernetic opetation?"

"No, the sex change."

The doctor's smile faltered.

"I'm joking.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Prince Kai! Check my fan, I think I'm overheating.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Soon, the whole world would be searching for her--Linh Cinder.
A deformed cyborg with a missing foot.
A Lunar with a stolen identity.
A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go.
But they will be looking for a ghost.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“We all have our weaknesses.”
“I know,” said Iko. “Mine is shoes.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“But if there was one thing she knew from years as a mechanic, it was that some stains never came out.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“We have the ability to love each other, no matter our differences. To help each other, no matter our weaknesses.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Kai shrugged and turned to Cinder. His eyes softened a little with a polite bow of his head. “I hope our paths will cross again.”
“Really? In that case, I guess I’ll keep following you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“If there is one thing I have learned from both our trades, it is that we must always be in the business of forgiveness, lest we become consumed by our anger.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch

“But the world will always look different when you open your eyes to what you previously refused to see.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch

“Sometimes you can’t help who you love or for how long.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch

“It's a difficult path to who you really are.”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“I knew I was going to die or sleep forever and I was completely fine with that”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“This was her quest. This was her duty”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“[...] my tragedy doesn't diminish yours”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“If I ever have a daughter, you can be sure I will keep her close, and teach her well, and school her in the ways of magic, and make her strong and powerful enough to protect herself, and I would never let anything come between us.”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“If I ever have a daughter, you can be sure I will keep her close, and teach her well, and school her in the arts of reading and math and kindness, and make her strong and powerful enough to protect herself, and I would never let anything come between us”
― Liz Braswell

“They will drink their tea. Weight their words. Wear hats against the sun. squeeze their minds into corsets, lest some errant thought should escape and ruin the smooth illusion they hold of themselves and the world as they like it.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“What’s another hell dimension?”
― Cassandra Clare, The Lost Book of the White

“The Queen had offered to shoulder her burden, but Lovisa wanted strong shoulders of her own to carry well whatever she was given.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“This world kept wanting to be bigger than she was letting it. Why did she keep trapping herself inside small things?”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“Maybe you should decide what you want to change in in the world, instead of which party to join.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“Even so, what was invented can be invented again”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“I think you did something terrible, because you had to. I don’t think you’re terrible. It’s not the same thing.”
― Kristin Cashore, Winterkeep

“The gods like to make a man feel unprepared, so the wisewoment say”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire

“Whatever she was, he would love her until they died”
― Tamora Pierce, Cold Fire