Saundra Mitchell > Quotes

“Do forgive me.... I've no reputation of my own, and I forget they matter.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“The stars could have burned out around us, the moon could have fallen from the sky, and I wouldn't have known it. Not when he leaned indecently close and pressed his cheek against mine to murmur, "Tell me a secret."
I wanted him to tell me how he stopped time like that. How he read my mind. I wanted to admit I wondered if thoughts of me troubled him when he lay awake at night. But I could make none of that come to my lips....
Instead... I whispered back, "I've seen the future."
He didn't laugh. He didn't mock, not like he had done at Privalovna's performance. In the middle of our waltz, he stopped, nose to nose with me. He uncovered me with a look that somehow bared him, too.
And his question told me everything - that he stopped time because he needed me, that he read my mind because we were one. That I troubled his nights, indeed, because what he asked revealed it all.
"Am I with you there?”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“Could you have possibly put more water between us?”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“You haunt me. You alone. You're my fire. I'm your air." Nathaniel to Amelia”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“I know I'm supposed to be a good girl. I know I'm supposed to be happy doing needlework samplers and baking potatoes in coal and whatnot.
But Lord, I love running from the law.”
― Saundra Mitchell, A Tyranny of Petticoats

“Laughter rose from the clatter of china and silver, and I felt so very close to Zora's circle but not quite in it. It wasn't Zora's fault, because she addressed me often and encouraged her cousins to speak to me - once or twice with kicks beneath the table.
But she couldn't know that the light on her circle paled to the light in mine. Even though I looked at the cousins, admiring their smiles and pretty laughter, I found myself drawn back to Nathaniel Witherspoon. And each time I caught him looking at me. At my mouth.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“The warmth of his mouth bloomed across my hand, and his nails skimmed across the inside of my wrist. Such great sensation from so little a touch....”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“Because when I can believe in a villain, I can fear them. My pulse races, I worry about the heroes, I read through my fingers, and flinch when disaster strikes. I exhale my relief when all is well, and I really feel it when they fall in love. No matter how fantastic the world, how unique the magic that's written into it- I have to believe in the characters before I can believe in their gifts.”
― Saundra Mitchell

“The lighthouse was like the Tardis: bigger on the inside”
― Saundra Mitchell, Mistwalker

“No.First tell me that you love me, as you've no one else.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“Was it enough to wear the night with me just once? I am unsatisfied.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“You're the only fire that consumes me." And my wonderful monster smiled at that. Smiled at me.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“Dinner was fried chicken, collard greens, and silence.”
― Saundra Mitchell, A Tyranny of Petticoats

“Sailors used to mark the edges of their maps Here There Be Monsters. They weren’t entirely wrong.”
― Saundra Mitchell, Mistwalker

“BEHOLD THE FIELD IN WHICH I GROW MY F*CKS, LAY THINE EYES UPON IT AND SEE THAT IT IS BARREN.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“...I tasted - perhaps for the first time - the true sweetness of possibility.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“When I was invited to write a story for A Tyranny of Petticoats, I had two ideas. One was a murder mystery -- I've written that kind of thing before. The other was a cross-dressing, bank-robbing teen bandit on the run. I've never written that kind of thing before. How to choose? How to choose? As Mae West once said, I went with the evil I'd never tried before.”
― Saundra Mitchell

“For two so gifted as we, how utterly useless we were.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Vespertine

“I don’t want to start a riot I don’t want to blaze a trail”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“us.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“We did it,” Barry says, so quiet it’s almost a whisper. Then he leaps up and shouts into the other room. “Dee Dee! Non-equity cast of Godspell! We did it! Emma’s going to the prom!”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“The way I saw it, that was the real mistake the Barrow gang had made.

It seemed to me that they'd have been a lot less likely to get gunned down if Bonnie had just had the sense to be Clyde.”
― Saundra Mitchell

“That night in Robin’s arms I kissed his smooth throat, unmarked by the apple of Eve’s deceit. I touched the leather bindings beneath his tunic.”
― Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

“It’s a faery story after all, perhaps ending happily ever after for me. But this one does not begin once upon a time. It begins — “Will you die for me?”
― Saundra Mitchell, Mistwalker

“Es más de lo que nunca me atreví a desear; es algo épico, donde hay lugar para todo el mundo.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“As autumn cedes to winter, I cede to the mist.”
― Saundra Mitchell, Mistwalker

“It’s easier to be quiet, and unsettled, and just feed my mother the nodding agreement she wants. It changes nothing, but it brings a bit of peace to the ride home.
For now, peace is good enough.”
― Saundra Mitchell, The Prom: A Novel Based on the Hit Broadway Musical

“bronze fox, tarnished with fingerprints. The symbol of Locksley.”
― Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

“can’t even get my label right, oh,”
― Saundra Mitchell, Out Now: Queer We Go Again!

“The hope was used up; all we had left was superstition.”
― Saundra Mitchell, Mistwalker