“It was a dangerous world for a sparkly flying horse”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“He was quiet for a few seconds, and Sophie thought he was going to ignore her. But then he leaned closer-close enough that she could feel his breath on her cheek. " I crack a lot of jokes ,Sophie , but ....that's just because it's easier, you know? It's how I deal. But that doesn't mean I don't care. I do, a lot.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“You'd be surprised at how powerful hope can be.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“He was quiet for a few seconds, and Sophie thought he was going to ignore her. But then he leaned closer-close enough that she could feel his breath on her cheek. " I crack a lot of jokes, Sophie, but ....that's just because it's easier, you know? It's how I deal. But that doesn't mean I don't care. I do, a lot.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“It was easier not to know―at least for right now”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“Sing swan, Spring swan then lets fly.
Follow the pretty bird across the sky.
Call swan, Fall swan, then lets rest.
Tucked in the branches of your quiet nest.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“In fact, most of the great human innovations of the last few centuries happened under elvin tutelage. Electricity. Penicillin. Chocolate cake.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“she'd figured out how to steer Silveny by teaching her simple commands like left and right and if you dump me into another pile of sparkly manure, I will clobber you. ”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“She wasn’t the Black Swan’s puppet anymore.
She was broken.
All she had left was trust.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“She was amazed Silveny had even let them get close enough to attach the reins. Clearly she needed to teach the glittering horse how to recognize pure evil.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“if it is not a big deal why would you tell me. i asked Keefe.
well your cute when you worry”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Exile
“that I wasn’t going crazy. For a long time I thought that this story should begin with what happened to me at the church, when my life”
― Dani Atkins, quote from Fractured
“There were a thousand noises: spoons clattering, liquid being poured in glugs, a deep, unctuous bubbling from the stove. Heat blasted him in a roar as someone opened an oven. It carried the glorious smell of fresh baking.”
― Laura Madeleine, quote from The Confectioner's Tale
“Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from The Inferno
“For when cynicism becomes the default language, playfulness and invention become impossible. Cynicism scours through a culture like bleach, wiping out millions of small, seedling ideas. Cynicism means your automatic answer becomes “No.” Cynicism means you presume everything will end in disappointment. And this is, ultimately, why anyone becomes cynical. Because they are scared of disappointment. Because they are scared someone will take advantage of them. Because they are fearful their innocence will be used against them—that when they run around gleefully trying to cram the whole world in their mouth, someone will try to poison them.”
― Caitlin Moran, quote from How to Build a Girl
“In despair, he left that farm and came to Bone Gap when it was a huge expanse of empty fields, drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide.”
― Laura Ruby, quote from Bone Gap
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