“Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“A touch of truth makes a lie worth believing.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Impossible just means they ain't thought of a name for it yet....”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“I don't care about lasting. I just want right now.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Word of advice, kid. This may be the Wild West down here, but you ain't a cowboy. You're not even a boy in a cowboy suit.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“... I'll be back before I have to meet the Headmaster about me going mad and killing people on my birthday, I swear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“He's no kind of gentleman.
That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces.
I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“I breathed in for a moment, letting his scent of leather and cigarettes and boy calm my ragged breathing.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“You're a monster that mothers threaten children with and you're still touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“...I wondered if I'd ever stop feeling fragile...”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song.
They decided to skip quarantine after that.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Considering it was my father's house, I thought it was very much my beeswax, but I wasn't about to argue with a stranger hiding in a kitchen, pelting me with footwear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Pain was tertiary. I could feel it later, for any length of time it desired.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“You smell pretty tasty.
Just what every girl wants to hear.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“There are seventeen madhouses in the city of Lovecraft. I've visited all of them.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Hell, Cal. You're a monster that mothers threaten their children with and you're still as touchy as an ugly girl in a pretty dress.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“I fear, in my dark hours, that it hungers for me and that it is only a matter of time before it eats its full of my sanity.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“It wasn't even a dream, because dreams come from a person's brain and I knew deep down that this one came directly from my madness.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Now the Night Bridge has seen you, too, and if you turned back, it could keep your soul forever.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“Fine job, cowboy. You work to be this stupid, or is it innate?”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“We fight and we bleed for this hidden world, and the world eats us alive.”
― Caitlin Kittredge, quote from The Iron Thorn
“-"your nocturna will never take another human, not for all the length of time in the universe and beyond. Your nocturna is wedded to your soul. Some even say"..."that it is the nocturni who carry souls into the Shadow World when we die, where they will keep watch over them and keep them safe forever. Some say that is nocturni's ultimate purpose.”
― Lauren Oliver, quote from The Spindlers
“Stop hiding condoms in my stuff. It's like some twisted Easter egg hunt in there.”
― Alyxandra Harvey, quote from Bleeding Hearts
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily--perhaps not possibly--chronological. The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.”
― Eudora Welty, quote from One Writer's Beginnings
“But a good novel is first of all an event; as distinguished from the continuous rush of many sensations and the messy overlapping experiences of our daily lives, it is a composed experience in which all sensations are tightly related, for which there is a beginning and an ending, within which the reader’s perceivings and interpretations are shaped for a while by the internal integrity of all the elements of the narrative.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., quote from The Book of the Dun Cow
“Misrecognition subverts the possibility of equal democratic participation.”
― Melissa V. Harris-Perry, quote from Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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