Liesl Shurtliff Quotes

Simple needs make a simple life.

It's all the things in the middle that make a person special.

And that's its own kind of magic - to feel that people who are gone are still here.

Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person's will is more powerful than both put together.

Martha spouted off a long message to the gnome, including all the details of my injuries, precisely where I was, and who Martha was and her son Helmut. When she asked the gnome to repeat the message, he got it all mixed up, and so she did it again and made it longer, but he still got it all mixed up, and so they went back and forth, and finally Martha lost patience and threw him out the window. The gnome scurried away chanting, Red for message! Red for message!

Sometimes we have to fall down before we can stand up.

Funny, that we always told stories with wolves and beasts and demons as villains, but in real life it seemed the humans were always the worst enemies. You could be your own villain.

Home is a place to get out of the rain
It cradles the hurt and mends the pain
And no one cares about your name
Or the height of your head
Or the size of your brain

It's hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food.

All magic has consequences, Rump. Even small magic can have big consequences.

A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell.

It's difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you're hungry and bored.

Who was the monster, here?

Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself.

A name is a powerful thing.

Rhymes make me feel better when I'm down ... When you say the words and the sounds match, it feels like everything in the world is in its place and whatever you say is powerful and true.

I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice.