“And I'm the only one with a plan," Fitz reminded them.
"Hey- I've got plans," Keefe argued.
"Plans that don't involve tormenting Dame Alina," Fitz clarified.
"But those are always the best plans!”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Because our family doesn't decide who we are. WE decide who we are. Believe me, it drives my parents crazy. And sometimes, that's the only thought that gets me through the day.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Sparkles also make everything better. Well, except alicorn poop."
"I don't know. I think sparkly poop is way better than regular poop."
"That's because you've never fallen into a pile of it.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Ugh, they’ve been at it all day,” Fitz grumbled. “It’s been hours of ‘Look—I’m invisible. Now I’m not! Now I am!’” Biana rolled her eyes as she reappeared. “Like you were any less annoying with your ‘I can tell you what you’re thinking right now! And now! And now!”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Aura of doom?" Keefe asked, a smirk curling his lips. "Sounds like my kind of party.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“You must think I'm a total idiot."
"Nah. I am starting to wonder if you're trying to beat Keefe's record for biggest interspeciesial episode- and if you are, I'm pretty sure you've won. The Great Gulon Incident was epic, but it didn't almost start a war.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“I wish I could give you a world where everything was perfect and shining and safe. I used to think that's what we had..." He shook his head. "I've realized now that our world doesn't define us. We define our world. And I hope you'll fill yours with as much light and happiness as you can."
"You realize how silly that sounds, right?"
"I do. But after everything that's happened, I think we could all use a bit more silly in our lives.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“And interfering with the Council's decisions is a treasonous offense."
Grady snorted. "Not if the Council's gone crazy.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“No matter how many times the elves explained the "illumination in a darkened world" analogy, she would never stop thinking it was weird to have a school named after glowing fungus.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Let’s go join the Black Swan!”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“But . . . I know your heart was in the right place—even if your brain had clearly gone on vacation for the afternoon.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“The right road is rarely the easy road. And no war is ever fought without casualties."
"Is that what this is?" Sophie asked. "A war?"
"Unfortunately, yes. A quiet war to stop a louder one from raging. You may hate me for asking this of him, but this is the cold reality we all face. We cannot control the actions of others, nor stop them from disappointing us. We can only use the anger and pain to fuel us. To help us rise above.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Remember who you can trust, and keep them close.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“She wasn't going to cry. She was going to fight.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“It takes a special person to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Because if she was right, then . . . Brant hadn’t just been with Jolie the day she’d died. He’d set the fire that killed her.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“The wind—or maybe Keefe—must’ve thrown back his father’s hood. But it wasn’t his father facing him. It was Lady Gisela. Keefe’s mom.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“She was tempted to ask if they were journeying with a hobbit to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“The rest of the Council nodded in agreement, except Terik and Oralie, and—quite surprisingly—Bronte. She only had three supporters,”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“I already did a cave of horrors thing with you a few weeks ago, and it wasn't awesome.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“I know that I was a total jerk for a few weeks. But I do trust you," Fitz told Sophie. "I hope you trust me.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“I've realized now that our world doesn't define us. We define our world. And I hope you'll fill yours with as much light and happiness as you can.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“But he was also the boy who’d shown up on her class field trip and shown her where she really belonged. The one who’d let her cry on his shoulder when she had to leave her family, and who’d gone out searching for her in the middle of nowhere, just because he’d heard her voice in his head.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Dex was the boy who’d tackled the kidnappers so she could try to get away. He’d suffered in silence as they burned him over and over because he didn’t want them to do it to her. He was her first friend— her best friend— and he just wanted to keep her safe.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Things are happening, and I need your help. When and where can we meet?”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“Most of it was boring stuff. Complaints he was getting about tomorrow’s healing. Something about Grady not making any progress on the dwarves. But there was one thing I knew I had to tell you. A goblin patrol found some new tracks outside the Sanctuary. They were far away from the gates, and whoever made them was only there briefly. But one of the footprints definitely belonged to an ogre.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
“The Councillors had to be pretty concerned if they were willing to rely on Keefe. . .”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Everblaze
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“I'm twenty years old,' said Laurent, 'and I've been the recipient of offers almost as long as I can remember.'
'Is that an answer?' said Damen.
'I'm not a virgin,' said Laurent.
'I wondered,' Damen said, carefully, 'if you reserved your love for women.'
'No, I--' Laurent sounded surprised. Then he seemed to realise that his surprise gave something fundamental away, and he looked away with a muttered breath; when he looked back at Damen there was a wry smile on his lips, but he said, steadily, 'No.'
'Have I said something to offend you? I didn't mean--'
'No. A plausible, benign and uncomplicated theory. Trust you to come up with it.'
'It's not my fault that no one in your country can think in a straight line,' said Damen, frowning a touch defensively.”
― C.S. Pacat, quote from Prince's Gambit
“How can I explain our relationship so the stylist gets it? It might not be normal, exactly, but it works for us. The kind of closeness we have can only happen when you grow up in a house like ours. When you know the one person in the world you can count on sleeps in a bed six feet away.”
― Kate Avelynn, quote from Flawed
“If any person claims to have loved twice in all their life — they have not loved at all.”
― Lang Leav, quote from Lullabies
“A kind of love to the cheerful little stream arose in my heart. It was born in a desert; but it seemed to say to itself, "I will flow, and sing, and lave my banks, till I make my desert a paradise.”
― George MacDonald, quote from Phantastes
“That settles it,” said Mr. Trapwood. “We’re going back to the pension. We’re going to pack. We’re going to be on the Bishop first thing tomorrow. Sir Aubrey will have to send someone else out. Nothing is worth another day in this hellhole.”
Mr. Low did not answer. He had caught a fever and was lying in the bottom of a large canoe owned by the Brothers of the São Gabriel Mission, who had arranged for the crows to be taken back to Manaus. His eyes were closed and he was wandering a little in his mind, mumbling about a boy with hair the color of the belly of the golden toad which squatted on the lily leaves of the Mamari River.
There had, of course, been no golden-haired boys; there hadn’t been any boys at all. What there had been was a leper colony, run by the Brothers of Saint Patrick, a group of Irish missionaries to whom the crows had been sent.
“They’re good men, the Brothers,” a man on the docks had told them as they set off on their last search for Taverner’s son. “They take in all sorts of strays--orphans, boys with no homes. If anyone knows where Taverner’s lad might be, it’ll be them.”
Then he had spat cheerfully into the river because he was a crony of the chief of police and liked the idea of Mr. Low and Mr. Trapwood spending time with the Brothers, who were very holy men indeed and slept on the hard ground, and ate porridge made from manioc roots, and got up four times in the night to pray.
The Brothers’ mission was on a swampy part of the river and very unhealthy, but the Brothers thought only about God and helping their fellowmen. They welcomed Mr. Trapwood and Mr. Low and said they could look over the leper colony to see if they could find anyone who might turn out to be the boy they were looking for.
“They’re a jolly lot, the lepers,” said Father Liam. “People who’ve suffered don’t have time to grumble.”
But the crows, turning green, thought there wouldn’t be much point. Even if there was a boy there the right age, Sir Aubrey probably wouldn’t think that a boy who was a leper could manage Westwood.
Later a group of pilgrims arrived who had been walking on foot from the Andes and were on their way to a shrine on the Madeira River, and the Brothers knelt and washed their feet.
“We know you’ll be proud to share the sleeping hut with our friends here,” they said to Mr. Low and Mr. Trapwood, and the crows spent the night on the floor with twelve snoring, grunting men--and woke to find two large and hungry-looking vultures squatting in the doorway.
By the time they returned to Manaus the crows were beaten men. They didn’t care any longer about Taverner’s son or Sir Aubrey, or even the hundred-pound bonus they had lost. All they cared about was getting onto the Bishop and steaming away as fast as it could be done.”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from Journey to the River Sea
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