Ysabeau S. Wilce > Quotes

“Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Segunda

“After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Fyrdraaca

“People keep asking "Jacob or Edward?" when the really important question is "Diamond Dave or Sammy?”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce

“You know that if ever the Fyrdraaca family is in true trouble, Barbizon is supposed to come to life and to our rescue, just as she did for Azucar.'
'Ayah, Poppy, I've heard the story.'
'Well, I often consider that I've sat here many times, and often felt in true trouble, and yet Barbizon has never leaped to my aid. So you know what that makes me think?'
'That it's just a story?'
'No, no. That my trouble is never true trouble. And things, though I think them bad, are not really so.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Segunda

“Nini Mo said a good swear is like a good purge—it don’t taste so good, but it sure does clear out your system.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora's Dare

“So when Fyrdraacas turn fourteen and celebrate their Catorcena, and are then adults in the eyes of the Warlord, off we go to Benica Barracks to learn to march, to learn to ride, to learn to shoot, to learn to die. But I do not want to go to the Barracks and learn to be a killer, a servant, a slave.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora Segunda

“Lucky for you, I am not very curious. A famous criminal, assisted by a protection egregore, and a flying octopus have a knock-down drag-out ruckus in my lobby over a girl hiding behind a false name, who has arrived at my hotel in the company of a Pacifica express agent. Most people would be very curious. But I am not nosy by nature. All I care about is who is going to pay for the damages.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora's Fury

“There are more ways to see than with your eyes, Flora. And now I see much more than I ever did when I had ordinary vision. It was a fair trade.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora's Dare

“Fear will kill you, said Nini Mo, faster than any bullet.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora's Fury

“It is a terrible fate to be a human, to be young and fair, and then so quickly to decay.”

“A terrible fate indeed: to grow, to learn, to love, to create, to let go. Some say it’s a terrible fate to be a Faery; to stay unchanging and unfeeling for all eternity, to spend one’s time in nothing but frivolity and pleasure-seeking,” Sylvie answers.”
― Ysabeau S. Wilce, The Underwater Ballroom Society