Alethea Kontis Quotes

I was a math whiz who stunk at English, so of course I wanted to be a writer more than anything in the world. I performed impromptu plays for my grandmother's sewing circle but forced my little sister to ask for ketchup at McDonald's.

It was like walking: if Rumbold didn't concentrate too hard on it, the illusion took care of itself

We're needed to save an innocent barrel of wine from a lecherous duke's son.

Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.

People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

Child, no one is ever ready for anything. I would never doom you to that. What sort of adventureless life would that be?

If he didn't like the writing, then he didn't like her, and everything she had done in her whole life would be for nothing.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor
and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.

Adventure is the vice of all Woodcutters.

Velius
so who is she? no wait, let me guess. skin of the finest porcelain. hair of the softest silk. a voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes
Rumbold
You've m-met her?
Velius
oh yes, my friend. we all know her. we've all pursued her. some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. we've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble

The only way to keep a secret is not to repeat it

Trouble was, they didn't have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.

Saturday's goal was swordsmanship decent enough to get her hired on the first caravan out of this magic-drenched insanity.

Every so often, I am thanked for being 'unapologetically me.' I treasure those moments, those people, and remember them every time I'm feeling timid.

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

Kindred's tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely - and demonically - inspired.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

In music, on stage and on screen, fairy tales have always been guaranteed moneymakers. It's no wonder then, that in these difficult economic times, there are fairy tales everywhere you turn. From 'Once Upon a Time' and 'Grimm,' to 'Mirror, Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman.'

I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.

Friday had always considered herself to be equal among her siblings, but by the time the ship finally came to rest in the harbor, she felt she had finally lived up to the Woodcutter name.

no one is ever ready for anything

If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years.

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves ... with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.

Have you ever had that moment when you looked back on something and said, 'Well, gosh, that seems obvious now ... why didn't I see it then?' I like to call this the Face Palm Epiphany. Oh, hindsight, you magical, humbling thing.

Normal is all relative.

Any other brushes with insanity you haven't thought to mention?

Perhaps her giant bright-eyed sister had finally come to put her out of her misery just when things had gotten interesting.

A few of my sisters have the ability to anticipate catastrophe. When the ground beneath your feet turns to mud, you might find a stepping stone they put there years earlier, for no particular reason at the time.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Oh! I thought you were the man with the dress."

"He could put one on for you," said Velius. "He's got the legs for it.

You have ruined me. I didn't realize how much I longed for the company of others until I had your words. When they are gone, the nights are darker. The silence is loud and bottomless, and I am empty. I miss them, my beloved Sunday, and I miss you.

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius.
"Third time's tradition," finished Erik.