Jessica Day George · 336 pages
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“Love you always, miss you always... running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and snow.
Never look back, never forget.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“And the prince who had once been a bear pulled close the girl who had once had no name, and kissed her.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Love’? What do you know about love?”
"It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather.
And it lives.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“This book was made possible by the letter “ø.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Love? ... It's at the heart of every story.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“It is a fine thing, to set your sights on crystal towers and golden thrones," Hans Peter said quietly. "But first you had better see what lurks within those towers, and what sits on those thrones.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Every palace needs a foundation, Askeladden. Make sure that yours isn't of human bones.-Hans Peter”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“And so they lived for many a long year, as happy and lighthearted as the birds in the trees and the flowers on the hill in spring.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“This book was made possible by the letter “ø.” Also the letter “æ.” The first time I saw them, I fell in love and just had to learn the language they belonged to. That language turned out to be Norwegian, with its rich history of folk tales about trolls and polar bears and clever young lads and lasses out to make their fortune. I only hope that I didn’t offend my Danish blacksmith forbears by choosing to study Norwegian instead of Danish in college.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“As they traveled the sun and moon dipped in the sky and then rose again, moving around them in a stately dance. In the summer months, at the top of the world, neither sank below the horizon. The sky was both dark and light, the sun a tiny pale ball and the moon a long thin crescent, lying on its back like a bowl. Then, for a time, the sun was directly below the moon, looking insignificant and weak.”
― Jessica Day George, quote from Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow
“Do you still love him?"
"Always and forever, and then an eternity after.”
― Christine Zolendz, quote from Saving Grace
“Maybe I just find long-term relationships to be interesting because I've never been in one or seen one that works well without getting fucked up in the end. Sometimes it seems like people are incapable of normal relationships anymore”
― Ais, quote from The Interludes
“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was just so much junk. They lived at the end of an epoch, when everything was dissolving into a sort of ghastly flux, and they didn’t know it. They thought it was eternity. You couldn’t blame them. That was what it felt like.”
― George Orwell, quote from Coming Up for Air
“Like my grandmother always said, “Your opinions are valid and important. Unless it’s some stupid bullshit you’re being shitty about, in which case you can just go fuck yourself.”
― Jenny Lawson, quote from Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
“But who wants to hang aroundfrat guys ? I want to be with guys who have more on their minds than where the next keg party is. I want to be with guys who care about making this world a better place—the way Andrew does. I want to be with guys who know that what’s important isn’t the size of a girl’s waistband but the size of her heart—like Andrew. I want to be with guys who are able to see past a girl’s outward appearance, and into her soul—like Andrew.”
― Meg Cabot, quote from Queen of Babble
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