“Hey, all the cool kids are sleeping with stuffed animals these days.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“A school isn’t a school until Sophie tries to destroy it.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“Fine, but you should at least have to write an epic poem in my honor. Here, I'll help you. "Ode to Keefe Sencen, that brave lovable nut. He may not have teal eyes, but he has a really cute,"
"KEEFE"!”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“Mr. Snuggles is always the best thing to see when you first wake up.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“Sooner or later you're going to have to solve the triangle. Or should we get real and call it a square?”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“Keefe?” she whispered. He smirked. “Did you miss me?”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“THAT’S MY BOX OF PRATTLES!”
“NOT ANYMORE!” “MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM-REX STOLE MY CANDY!”
“DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD-BEX SMELLS LIKE DRAGON POOP!”
“SO DOES REX!” another voice added. “STAY OUT OF THIS, LEX!”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“The star only rises at Nightfall...”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“ I don't care. They tried to take my family from me, and I'm not going to sit back anymore. So you better find a way to get out now, Keefe. Before you get caught in the cross fire. ”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“I’m always serious, Foster. Especially when you think I’m teasing.”\”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“We shouldn’t pass judgment until we see how things play out. Actions never tell the whole story. Good can be done for the wrong reason. And bad can be misunderstood.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“I should’ve just made something up and gotten the favor over with.” “You probably should have. But you didn’t, so . . . I win!” He shook his hair, flashing his most adorably confident smile, “And I gotta say, I kinda get why you hesitated with this. It’s a big decision. I mean, on the one hand, I could go for the obvious and make you share whatever secret you keep almost telling me.” Sophie’s mouth turned to sandpaper. “So that still freaks you out, huh? That might be proof that it needs to happen.” His eyes locked onto hers, refusing to let her look away. And when she swallowed, it was so loud, she was sure the entire world heard it. “Or,” he said. “We could skip the talking.” “And do what?” she asked, hating her voice for cracking. “Any ideas?” He was so close now, she could feel his breath warming her cheeks. He leaned a tiny bit closer and someone cleared his throat—very loudly.”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“It's all a rather dark shade of gray. But that's a color all of us are familiar with, aren't we?”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“Until he was right in front of her, his lips curling with the world’s saddest smile. “Back to nervous habits, huh?” he asked as he brushed a fallen eyelash off her cheek. “It’s been a rough few weeks,” she whispered. “Yeah. It really has.” He blew the eyelash away and she wondered if he’d made a wish—until she remembered that elves didn’t have silly superstitions like that. She”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“Keefe smeared his blood across the smooth panel. But a metallic click echoed through the dark instead. A lock clicking into place. Lady Gisela stepped back, shaking her hair out of her eyes. “Finally done.” The”
― Shannon Messenger, quote from Lodestar
“What we see may deceive us - the skin may be deceptive - but there has to be one truth, right? It can't all just be a jumble of perceptions. So what really exists out there, beyond what we can see? We're so dependent on the surfaces of what we see. But if we could see past the skin of this world...”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Skin
“I don't think of myself as evil, but no can say they've led a perfect life.”
― H.P. Mallory, quote from Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory
That old lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.”
― Wilfred Owen, quote from The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
“Don’t be that way, Ric.” She grabbed hold of Ric’s T-shirt and pulled him over until his weight rested against her. She placed her hand against the back of his neck and lowered his head, placing it against her chest. Using her fingers, she eased around and found the swelling knot at the base of his skull and carefully placed the bag of ice there. “Doesn’t that feel better?”
He grunted a little, his arms now wrapping around her waist, his face burrowing deep against her breast. After a moment, he settled and said, “Now it does.”
Dee rolled her eyes in disgust. Honestly, wolves took any advantage they could get. At their core—they were all the same.
Horny, pathetic, and cute.”
― quote from Big Bad Beast
“Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.”
― Margo Lanagan, quote from Tender Morsels
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