Rhiannon Quotes

I feel as much belief in her as I do in God- I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way. This might be one of the things I saw in Rhiannon, too- her desire to persevere. ~ David Levithan

Anger is an uncontrollable force when given to one who is broken ~ Rhiannon

How the hell could Rhiannon keep people loyal to her if she was such a bitch?"
Alanna gave me a knowing look.
"I mean female people. It's obvious how she kept her men happy." My hands were planted on my
hips and I was tapping my foot in time with my anger. (I looked very teacherish - as a matter of fact, I felt the sudden desire to reprimand a teenager. But there's never one around when you need one.) ~ P.C. Cast

She told me that she meant to be grateful for all things. I stared and repeated, "I am". She knows me well enough to know that I just wasn't getting it, and I know she somehow knew that I needed to hear this. So, very patiently she said, "I mean everything, the good, the bad, your thoughts, your moods, mean people, all of it". ~ Rhiannon Smith

What do you privately consult about?"
Haunted houses, exorcisms, that sort of thing," he answered.
Wow. You're like-"
Don't say it."
-Giles from Buffy."
He rolled his eyes. "If I had a quarter for every time someone said
that. ~ Rhiannon Frater

I should hit him harder. With a truck, ~ Rhiannon Frater

She must be strong enough to hold the memory of her husband, to sing his song in her heart until she joined him in the Underworld. ~ Janell Rhiannon

Queen Rhiannon of the House of Gwalchmai fab Gwyar.
First Born Daughter of Queen Addiena. First Born White ... "
"So," she cut him off before the litany of his mother's titles
forced her to stab herself in the neck ~ G.A. Aiken

Rhiannon Anna Maria Reyes, (Strength 10, Dexterity 14, Stamina 12, Will 17, IQ 16 and Charisma 15 -- Geek 7 / Barista 3 / Screenwriter 2 / Gamer Girl 2) was Bryan's secret weapon. Rhiannon (known to practically everyone as "Ree") kept the café in fabulous baked goods, talked authoritatively about subjects from Aliens to Zork, and drew the attentions of countless lovelorn geeks. ~ Michael R. Underwood

Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels. ~ Janell Rhiannon

You never get involved in the people's lives? The ones you're inhabiting?"
I shake my head.
"You try to leave the lives the way you found them."
"Yeah."
"But what about Justin? What made that so different?"
"You," I say. ~ David Levithan

The car can smile all it wants, but that doesn't mean you can see the driver's expression. ~ David Levithan

You have to weed the garden before you can plant flowers, must you not?" I ~ Rhiannon Thomas

Rhiannon's Law #63: Fake it until you make it. You might not know what the fuck you're doing, but that doesn't mean everyone else is aware of your inaptitude. When in doubt, hold your head high and pretend you have a clue. ~ J.A. Saare

I know I shouldn't be doing this. I know I'm poking a wound, not healing it. I know there's no way to have a future with Rhiannon.
All I'm doing is extending the past by a day. ~ David Levithan

We all consist of both good and evil, both light and darkness. It is our choices Rhiannon, the day to day struggle, and how we choose to live, that define us. ~ Nikki Landis

He'd fail doing, not fail waiting. That was the best you could ask of anyone in this life.
-Andrew Dare ~ Rhiannon Held

There was even a story passed among the queen's court that when freshly hatched, Rhiannon bit her mother on the neck when she tried to cuddle her new daughter. But Rhiannon didn't believe that for one second. True, she believed she bit her mother, but she didn't believe her mother had tried to cuddle her. ~ G.A. Aiken

I choose what to remember, and I am choosing Rhiannon. Again and again, I am choosing her, I am conjuring her, because to let go for an instant will allow her to disappear. ~ David Levithan

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair. ~ Stevie Nicks

To be wounded or die at the hands of one who is meant to love you. Is there a more miserable thing in the world? ~ Rhiannon Hart

She'd been questioning Jenni's sanity for a while now, but then again, they were all slightly insane now, weren't they? ~ Rhiannon Frater

Few female characters get to be "the Chosen One" in science fiction and fantasy. Leia is as much the child of Darth Vader as Luke is, but only Luke gets to use the force, be recruited by his dad and ultimately save the day. We don't get impossibly clever female sleuths or the sexy spies with the awesome gadgets. And on the rare occasions that we do get those characters, they're denigrated as unrealistic Mary Sues. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable.
Is it sickness or is it heartbreak?
I can't tell.
The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not. ~ David Levithan

Rhiannon's Law #14: There is a reason the truth hurts. When you cease to feel the sting, it means you've stopped caring. And damn, wouldn't that be a total fucking waste? ~ J.A. Saare

Everything is better when we're together. Even when it's bad. ~ Rhiannon Frater

Some of the most dangerous women in history are not known as dangerous by having picked up a sword, a gun, or a vial of poison. They are known and regarded as dangerous because they picked up a pen. ~ Rhiannon Mills

During the meeting, Jenni paid attention only when they talked about killing zombies. ~ Rhiannon Frater

There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

It may not maek sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll udnerstnad that some times things have t o be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor. -Silver ~ Rhiannon Held

The heart loves without boundaries. It is the mind that can trap the heart with cages constructed by society's rules. ~ Rhiannon Frater

I have no idea how to do that. What am I supposed to do? Say 'Go, arise ye dead fucks to torment the ones who killed you'? ~ Rhiannon Frater

She didn't know how she would survive when every breath stung, every tear burned, and every step took her further from the only man she'd ever loved. ~ Janell Rhiannon

I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations. ~ Rhiannon McGavin

He must lay siege against Briseis' walls and conquer her. Love would be his sword and he would break all her chains. ~ Janell Rhiannon

I threw back my head, my hair falling about me like a great red curtain, and cried out. My eyes felt hot and burned with tears as my body trembled with the passion for blood. ~ Rhiannon Frater

I could feel the urgency in the driver's voice as he prodded the horses to greater momentum. The rumble of thunder could be heard rolling through the mountains as foreboding dark clouds rolled overhead obscuring the starry sky. The sun vanished with one last glimmer through the pine trees, then night took possession of the earth. ~ Rhiannon Frater

If you care about hundreds, you have to care about one.
- Wraith ~ Rhiannon Lassiter

She had spent years locked in a tower, unable to see anything of the world but the scarp of forest beyond her window, but stories had provided her escape. New books, old books, dramas and histories and fantastical adventures, stories of ordinary lives, stories of dragons and demons, murders and mysteries and myths from long ago. A hundred possible worlds, more true to her than her own, more compelling than a life of staring at the same walls and same trees, waiting for the day when the lock would click and she would finally be allowed to be free. A story could not hurt her. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

I stole Judy Blume's 'Forever' from my sister when I was eight,' I say. 'I figured if it was by the author of 'Superfudge', it had to be good. Well, I soon realized why she kept it under her bed. I'm not sure I understood it all, but I thought it was unfair that the boy would name his, um, organ, and the girl wouldn't name hers. So I decided to give mine a name.' Rhiannon is laughing. "What was its name?' "Helena. I introduced everyone to her at dinner that night. It went over really well. ~ David Levithan

It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon ~ David Levithan

Rhiannon readied her speech. The speech she'd given more than once over the years to Éibhear and, when they were much younger, to her older sons. The one that included things like:
"I'm sure your father didn't mean that."
"Of course your father loves you."
"No. He didn't try to sell your egg to the highest human bidder."
"And of course, he never tried to kill you while you slept! ~ G.A. Aiken

The witch's words were cut off and Izzy stumbled back into the earth.
Izzy looked up at the dragoness standing over her. her grandmother smiled. "What did I miss? I sensed I was missing something!"
Rhiannon looked down at her claws, "Did I step in something? I feel like I stepped in something. ~ G.A. Aiken

But all I really learned is that money is powerful enough to bend the rules. Rhiannon:0, Dad:1. ~ Susane Colasanti

Fuck with the bull, assholes, and get the horns. ~ J.A. Saare

What was wrong with you?"
"Melancholy. Nothing more or less than that. I have suffered it often. Not because I do not like the court, but because... well, I do not know why. It is just one of those things... This time was particularly bad, though. It was so strong it was like a physical illness. But the doctors said it was melancholy, just melancholy, and that time away would it. 'A fragile disposition,' they called me.... As though one needs to be fragile to be sad. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

Katie let the curtain fall back into place. Standing before the window, she felt herself let go of the old world and embrace the new. She would survive this. She would go on. That was all there was to it. She wouldn't give up without a fight. She would do whatever it took to survive. ~ Rhiannon Frater

She's just being sensitive. You put a girl in jail and forget about her for a few months, and they all take it so bloody personally."
"You forgot about her?"
"She's lucky I did. She'd been sent to kill Rhiannon."
"Then why isn't she dead?"
Celyn sighed. "It was a sad, weak attempt, really. She clearly didn't want to do it. Auntie Rhiannon just felt bad for her. ~ G.A. Aiken

What about you?" I ask her. "What do you think I should read next?" She takes my hand and leads me to the children's section. She looks around for a second, then heads over to a display at the front. I see a certain green book sitting there and panic. "No! Not that one!" I say. But she isn't reaching for the green book. She's reaching for Harold and the Purple Crayon. "What could you possibly have against Harold and the Purple Crayon?" she asks. "I'm sorry. I thought you were heading for The Giving Tree." Rhiannon looks at me like I'm an insane duck. "I absolutely HATE The Giving Tree." I am so relieved. "Thank goodness. That would've been the end of us, had that been your favorite book." "Here - take my arms! Take my legs!" "Take my head! Take my shoulders!" "Because that's what love's about!" "That kid is, like, the jerk of the century," I say, relieved that Rhiannon will know what I mean. "The biggest jerk in the history of all literature, ~ David Levithan

All I want is this, this and nothing else. Ever. ~ Rhiannon Paille

You must speak to her heart, then. But first, you must open yours, then hers will follow. ~ Janell Rhiannon

You're a strange, strange girl in a strange strange world. ~ Rhiannon Frater

I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart. ~ Janell Rhiannon

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you -Rhiannon ~ David Levithan

Rhiannon finds me like that, in the selfless reading space that the mind loans out. ~ David Levithan

I am nothing, she thought. Nothing but myself. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

She has the longest eyelashes I have ever seen, falling like stray wishes onto her cheeks. ~ Rhiannon Argo

Do you like Rhiannon more than me? ... They're two completely different concepts. When a girl asks you a question like that, there's no way you can be honest. They say they want you to be honest, but then they get all upset when you are. You can't win. There's no way to win. There are questions you just can't answer without manipulating the truth. ~ Susane Colasanti

I had hoped if this ever happened, they at least wouldn't run like they do in the new movies. ~ Rhiannon Frater

Peggy snorted. Zombies rise and we're still doing paperwork. ~ Rhiannon Frater

Rulership does not sit comfortably on any worthy head. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

Anything was possible, if you thought about it in the right way. ~ Rhiannon Thomas

We're meals on wheels," Jenni said with a bitter laugh. "Chewy center is what it's all about," Katie said gloomily. ~ Rhiannon Frater

I choose when to die ~ Rhiannon Frater

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus. ~ P.C. Cast

All of them raced toward his house: Troy, Roger, Arturo, Sam, little Yessica, and to his surprise, Corina. They were yelling and motioning to him. "Go to the back gate! The back gate!" he shouted, and then he saw why they were running with such terrified expressions on their faces. They were being chased by zombified preschoolers around Drake's age. ~ Rhiannon Frater

Understand, I did not conquer my wife. I won her over. There is a difference. ~ Janell Rhiannon

Now I know: Love isn't so straightforward. It's never a matter of telling yourself to do it and doing it. It's never a matter of someone else telling you to do it and doing it. It can't exist between two people if they can't also feel it exist outside of them, too. It can involve hurt, but it shouldn't make you hurt all the time. Then it's not love. It's a trap disguised as love."
-Rhiannon ~ David Levithan

She parked near the fence and took a deep breath. Curious, she did it
again, feeling her lungs expand, then contract. She sat in silence,
letting her body decide what to do next. Her lungs stayed still, but she
didn't feel as though she was suffocating.
"Yep, dead," she whispered. ~ Rhiannon Frater

Wow! I'm more of a badass than I thought. ~ Rhiannon Frater

Please don't hug me. Please don't hug me.
But she did. And now Bram had two sets of black eyes glaring at him.
Finally, he said out loud, "It's not me! I swear!" Rhiannon laughed and leaned back from Bram.
"So cute! Isn't he cute, Bercelak?"
"No."
"Bercelak's only teasing."
"No, I'm not. ~ G.A. Aiken

Juan nonchalantly drove the shovel through the head of the zombified maid, and the drama was over. ~ Rhiannon Frater

It may not make sense to you, now, but when you get older you'll understand that sometimes things have to be done. Hard things. But everyone will hate the person who finally does them. But if they do them anyway, that's the mark of true honor. ~ Rhiannon Held Silver

The feature article made my holy-shit-o-meter blare like a banshee ~ J.A. Saare

Love is a poison,' her father responded. 'One you grow accustomed to, but does not kill you. ~ Janell Rhiannon

Just like that, everything was very different between them. ~ Rhiannon Frater

It was strapless, the bodice peacock-blue and edged in gold, full skirted at the front and gathered into an elaborate, foaming bustle of satin and peacock feathers at the back. I insisted that every inch of bare skin was powdered with gold: my shoulders, décolletage, and the lower part of my face. The golden mask would cover my eye, and my lips were painted with more gold. I carried a golden fan that, when it was opened, revealed hundreds of eyes and looked exactly like a peacock's tail. ~ Rhiannon Hart

Why don't you write about the gypsies? My great people the gitanos!" Armando smirked in response as he moved her away from his computer. "You know when I was mortal, the gitanos were considered trash." Carlotta's face darkened with anger. "You high-brow Spanish aristocratic pig, whose genes are so inbred you're lucky your genitals aren't growing out of your forehead, ~ Rhiannon Frater