E.J. Kitchens > Quotes

“No one runs the place,” he said with an amused smile. “It just sort of sits here. I wanted to make it into a moving castle, but they said only eccentric, heart-eating wizards did that. I don’t think that’s true. I am not eccentric, and I detest cards.”
― E.J. Kitchens, Cursed for Keeps: A Clean Fairytale Retelling of the Frog Prince and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

“Fools! The blind pursuit of safety and comfort above all else was a trap. Safety and comfort, when taken as the ultimate good, enslaved and birthed not peace but fear. Fear of losing them and of a thousand things too ordinary before to bother about.”
― E.J. Kitchens, Wrought of Lions and Sand

“She’d apologized. That’s all she could do against true guilt. Dwelling on guilt feelings to try to make up for her failure did no good.”
― E.J. Kitchens, Wrought of Serpent and Snow

“We’re not meant to hero it alone. It doesn’t usually work out well that way.”
― E.J. Kitchens

“Suffering doesn’t define the truth,”
― E.J. Kitchens, Wrought of Serpent and Snow

“I want a whole man, which grows from a whole boy. Most easily, anyway. Whole men make better Silver Guards.”
― E.J. Kitchens, Wrought of Silver and Ravens