Celia Lake > Quotes

“Britain’s queen, too, who was still visibly mourning her husband twenty years later.”
― Celia Lake, Four Walls and a Heart

“This bed is enormous, Gabe, what do you do when you’re all by yourself?” He blinked at her. “Have space to sleep that’s not covered by books?” That, now, that utterly broke any tension between them, as Rathna threw back her head and laughed.”
― Celia Lake, The Fossil Door

“People thought that a magic like that was like calling a well-trained dog to heel, certain of obedience. She and Cyrus both knew better. It was more like luring a cat with a bit of fish and hoping the cat would deign to do as you wished.”
― Celia Lake, The Hare and the Oak

“Breeding horses is one thing, I’ve never approved of doing the same for people. Never mind the fact that horses and hounds and cats teach us that in-breeding rarely works out well in the long-run.” Benton blinked at the addition of the cats, that was entirely new. It struck him oddly. Mind, he had been thinking more about cats, because of Cassie’s, and how soothing it was to have something soft and warm curled up against you. Working dogs were not the same, and horses did not fit on a sofa.”
― Celia Lake, On the Bias

“She was neatly dressed, in her uniform, her hair and cap pinned in place by whatever arcane methods nurses used. If it had been an ordeal, it seemed to have been an unnaturally tidy and well-behaved one.”
― Celia Lake, Carry On

“the sort of hug that was half an octopus with ambitions.”
― Celia Lake, Upon a Summer's Day

“It’s the kind of thing an author who didn’t know what the real thing looks like would put in a novel.”
― Celia Lake, Carry On

“tsked,”
― Celia Lake, Best Foot Forward