Quotes from Enchanted

“If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“It can't be 'true' love without the truth”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“When sad she brings the thunder
And her tears, they bring the rain
When ill she feeds a poison
To us all to fell her pain
Her smiles they bring the sunshine
And the laughter and the wind
And the birds they go on singing
And the world is whole again.
"Smile, sweet Sunday," Wednesday whispered in her ear. "The birds need your love so they can lift their wings.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“May we all be doomed to a happy life.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."

Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius.
"Third time's tradition," finished Erik.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Velius--so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes
Rumbold-- You've m-met her?
Velius--oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“For some heroes, nothing is impossible”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“There are many things wrong with you. A hangover just isn't one of them.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

“Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention?”
― Alethea Kontis, quote from Enchanted

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