“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“Could we wear spandex and blow things up?”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“She's under duress," Peaseblossom said.
"I don't care if she's under duress, over it, or alongside it," Moth said. "Nothing in this world supersedes cake.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“What a diva!"
"Stupid, men can't be divas..."
"Divo, then."
"That just sounds weird. Call him a jerk and be done with it.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“What color is pandemonium? It sounds yellow.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“The Brigands charged in with their weapons drawn.
"Who are you?" Young Bertie asked.
"We're the bad guys!" their leader announced.
"What are you going to do?"
"Plunder and pillage!" one of them yelled.
The others immediately shoved him. "Not in front of the kid, Ralph! Fer cryin' out loud..."
"Oh, yeah. Sorry! We're here to take your candy!”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“Crazier than a bag full of crazy?”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“You're a little tall to play Ariel." said Moth.
"And you have way too many muscles," said Mustardseed.
"But you might be able to pull it off," Cobweb said, "if you can look really constipated.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“He dodged remarkably fast for a melancholy introvert.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“I always walked the ragged edge.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“One o' these days, lass, I'm goin' t' still that mouth o' yers. - Nate”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“And now, the bane of your existence, the killer of all joys, the Stage Manager-”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“You didn't just write the play, Bertie," Peaseblossom said suddenly. "You ordered the Players about, shouted, and threw an artistic hissy fit. Do you know what that makes you?"
"A temperamental fusspot?" Mustardseed guessed.
"Crazier than a bag full of crazy?" Moth said.
"Close," Peaseblossom said. "It makes her a Director.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“He pulled her close. “Someday, I will win your trust, and you will be the one to set me free. I know it.”
“I won’t.” Bertie recoiled from both him and the assertion she would do such a thing. “Not ever.”
Ariel made no move to touch her again, though his words were a caress. “Don’t make promises you won’t be able to keep.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“I may hold ye at arm's length....But I want ye t' be mine an' mine alone. - Nate to Bertie, as they danced.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while, simply to be myself.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“Peaseblossom-decorous, proper Peaseblossom-dropped her trousers to waggle her naked, pale bottom at the Stage Manager. Bertie laughed involuntarily, choked on her coffee, and nearly died as it came out her nose, but it was worth the searing pain in her nostrils to see the look on the Stage Manager's face. ”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“His tiny, naked butt disappeared into the stream as he cried, "Wheeeee! Balls out!"
I think that's a rugby reference," Bertie said. "But don't quote me on that.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“About the time he threatened her nose with his finger, Peaseblossom lost her grip on the situation with the boys. The door crashed open, and three irate fairies launched themselves at the Stage Manager. Cobweb and Moth pelted him with sequins while Mustardseed rammed beads into his ears.
"Dance!" they commanded, and dance he did, hopping with impotent anger and pain from one foot to the other as he batted his meaty hands at them.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“The collar had restrained his winds but not killed them. They uncoiled from behind the shadows, ready to surround her, to lift her up, to carry her away with only Ariel’s silk-clad arms wrapped about her to keep her from falling.
Spirare, they whispered to her like an incantation. Breathe us in.
Bertie didn’t mean to, but she inhaled, and everything inside her was a spring morning, a rose opening its petals to the sun, the light coming through the wavering glass of an old, diamond-paned window.
Tendrils of wind reached for Bertie with a coaxing hand. Release him, and he will love you.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“The fairies put on their thinking caps, which were red and pointy.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“Maybe I didn't try as hard as I ought when he started calling you
names. Serves him right, the nasty old turd. Punch him again, Moth" - Peaseblossom”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“This is a theater," Bertie, annoyed by the inquisition, dropped him onto stage. Several feet of slack cable landed atop the fairy in a slithering heap.
"Oh!" Peaseblossom said. "You've buried him alive!”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
“No," Bertie said, "something tragic. The most famous of all the Shakespearean tragedies-"
Mustardseed jumped up and down. "Your hair!"
"Shakespearean tragedy, Mustardseed.”
― Lisa Mantchev, quote from Eyes Like Stars
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“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from The Salmon of Doubt
“You know how to steer a yacht?" Mr. McIntyre asked Ian worriedly.
"I was born knowing how to steer a yacht," Ian said. Then a stricken look came over his face. "But–do you suppose Jonah prepaid the full amount for renting this? Once my dad hears what Natalie and I did, he'll cancel our credit cards."
"You mean we're...we're poor now?" Natalie gasped.
"Penniless," Ian said grimly.
"Actually," Mr. McIntyre said, "I should have mentioned this before the others left. Grace had an addendum to her will regarding everyone who made it through the gauntlet. There were eight of you–you will all receive double the amount you turned down to get the first clue."
"It was a million dollars originally," Ian said. "So Natalie and I each get two million dollars? I suppose we could live on that."
Natalie beamed.
"That is such a relief!" she said. "Being poor wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be, but still–"
"You were only poor for about two seconds!" Dan protested, rolling his eyes.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, quote from Into the Gauntlet
“He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.”
― Hilary Mantel, quote from Bring Up the Bodies
“How terrible it would have been, at this time, to be without it; to have died among the Tulsis, amid the squalour of that large, disintegrating and indifferent family; to have left Shama and the children among them, in one room; or worse, to have lived without even attempting to lay claim to one’s portion of the earth; to have lived and died as one had been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated.”
― V.S. Naipaul, quote from A House for Mr Biswas
“The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.”
― Anne Brontë, quote from Agnes Grey
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