Tilly Wallace > Quotes

“Not everyone could be a star. Some people had to be the night sky, the dark background that allowed the star to shine.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters

“Only rational men require evidence. People in the grip of anger and fear seize on empty words.”
― Tilly Wallace, Hessians and Hellhounds

“An oversized barn owl at the window does rather catch one’s attention.”
― Tilly Wallace, Vanity and Vampyres

“Yes. If one is chained to a rock, with a giant eagle pecking out one’s liver every day for years, people eventually start to talk.”
― Tilly Wallace, Vanity and Vampyres

“Could her own heart break down in a similar fashion inside her body from lack of use?”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters Collection, #1-3

“It was nearly a hundred and fifty miles from Ianthe’s secluded farm in Northamptonshire to the small coastal town of Seabrook, just up the coast from Hythe in Kent. It would take them at least three days on the road to reach their destination.”
― Tilly Wallace, Souls to Heal

“Some people had to be the night sky, the dark background that allowed the star to shine.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters

“My sort walk this earth on silent feet and seldom leave a footprint you can track.”
― Tilly Wallace, Secrets to Reveal

“In life, Lady Winyard, we must make the right decisions, even if they are difficult ones that cause us pain.”
― Tilly Wallace, Mage's End Game

“They are stories we tell to give ourselves false hope.”
― Tilly Wallace, Shadow Schemes

“Hypothesise, then strategize.”
― Tilly Wallace, Mistletoe and Mireworth: A Manners and Monsters Christmas Novella

“The only route she knew to a man’s heart was the direct one, assisted by rib crackers and a scalpel.”
― Tilly Wallace, Sixpence and Selkies

“When you possess a wolf’s heart you have the most valuable thing in the world.”
― Tilly Wallace, Secrets to Reveal

“But be careful. The discovery of secrets is often a reciprocal process.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters Collection, #1-3

“if he didn’t let the beast loose on rare occasions, he feared it would rip him apart in polite company.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters Collection, #1-3

“Besides, Mrs Rossett kept sliding him still-warm biscuits as though he were a lad again.”
― Tilly Wallace, Sixpence and Selkies

“At least with siblings you could escape to quiet moments. When you had none, every moment was silent, a void waiting to be filled.”
― Tilly Wallace, Secrets to Reveal

“I have no patience with people. Plants are different.”
― Tilly Wallace, The Stormborne Vine

“She had never been kissed, and probably never would. Secondhand information must sustain her. Just like secondhand love, the tiny voice in the back of her head whispered.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters Collection, #1-3

“True beauty is in how others see you, not in a garment you wear.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters Collection, #1-3

“Was this her life? Day after day on her own, starved of conversation or the touch of others? Emptiness gnawed in her chest.”
― Tilly Wallace, Secrets to Reveal

“If a pawn makes it all the way across the board, it becomes a queen.”
― Tilly Wallace, Mage's End Game

“Laws are written by men to benefit men, my dear. Such will be the way of the world until women have a voice in how we are governed.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters Collection 2

“Not everything had to be deep and worthy in order to be enjoyable.”
― Tilly Wallace, Galvanism and Ghouls

“Not all women could be stars. Some had to be the night sky.”
― Tilly Wallace, Manners and Monsters

“Perhaps there will come a day when women are no longer controlled by men and they may fully embrace their power, whatever it may be.”
― Tilly Wallace, Secrets to Reveal

“Being a big boy now, as he announced in a sleepy tone, he didn’t need me to dress him anymore. A pang shot through my heart at the tiny tendrils of independence emerging from him.”
― Tilly Wallace, Seams like Murder

“There were those in life destined for greatness, and those who would pass through the world and not leave the faintest shadow to show they’d ever been.”
― Tilly Wallace, Secrets to Reveal

“One vampyre was bad enough—he didn’t need a plague of the fops traipsing about London, supping on the residents, and moaning about how the damp made their lace cuffs droop.”
― Tilly Wallace, Vanity and Vampyres

“It takes time and effort to set aside what you are led to believe from a young age, and to discover the truth for yourself.”
― Tilly Wallace, Mistletoe and Mireworth: A Manners and Monsters Christmas Novella