Isla Frost > Quotes

“Fear is a disease that will kill more surely than any blade or claw. It overrides logic, wipes out hope, and cannot be outrun. Fear will follow you back to camp, it will tax you—mind, body, and soul—when you fight and when you attempt to rest. And fear can kill even those that survived the battle.”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Witch

“Please don’t break any more walls.” “I wasn’t breaking walls. I was merely adding doorways.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“As your Mark Twain once wrote, ‘The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“When someone’s downright terrifying, it’s sometimes hard to remember that they still share more things in common with you as not. Pain. Fear. Vulnerability. Unmet need. These things are universal, and in my experience, most intimidating behavior comes from those places.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“I’m Ronan Nightwing, the designated representative of the Faerie Governing Council in the matter of the Hale family and the artifact.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“How many times had they failed to be grateful for that which they already possessed, instead striving endlessly toward some manufactured ideal and destroying what they had in the process?”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“Anything was better than mulling over what I’d learned. The sacrifice Theus and every snotty walker student in the school had made. The revelation that the walkers were asking no more of humankind than they’d demanded of themselves. Arguably less in fact.”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Witch

“Understood that in some ways, their intentions had been both nobler and more considered than mine. And that understanding, combined with my relationship with Theus, allowed me to let go of my long-accumulated anger and the prejudices and presumptions that had been caused by it. I was starting to grasp that while the walkers were not kind, their cruelty came from a difference in the way they saw the world rather than evil intent.”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Witch

“ambition. I wanted to protect her wonderful, gentle soul and her warm and tender heart too. So I would lead the way. And anything that tried to get to Ameline would have to do so over my dead body. Not that I told her that.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“When the old ways are crumbling beneath you, you can cling to the fracturing foundation with every bit of your strength in the hopes you can shore it up a little longer—or you can let go and jump. Neither is safe. And fear can make fools of us all.”
― Isla Frost, All Is Faerie in Love and War

“Because I want you to know… right up until the end… no matter what else you forget”—my voice broke, and it took longer this time before I could continue—“that you are adored and loved and part of a whole. That in a world of cruelty and division, you found love and belonging.” I swiped at the tears and swallowed past my increasingly restricted throat. “No. You didn’t just find love and belonging. You carved it out for yourself. And you carved it out for me. And my siblings.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“You’re either the one we’ve been waiting for or a horrifying aberration that ought to be put down. Now I just have to convince the cowards to give us the chance to learn which.”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Witch

“You smell like a rotting walrus stewed in sewer water and set upon by a rabble of noxiously flatulent rats. You are not getting on my back smelling like that.” I smiled briefly in appreciation. Now that was how to insult someone.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“The power held by corporate giants was terrifying even before the CEO decided to leverage that power for their own murderous ends. A supply shortage. A profit-driven business decision. Cost cuts or poorly thought-out policies that reduced safety margins, forced people into unemployment, or added more pressure to frontline workers already stretched thin. A price hike of an essential medicine. (Wolfram hadn’t forged new ground there.) These things, especially in the health and medical industry, routinely killed far more people than the average serial killer could ever aspire to. And yet so few of them resulted in criminal charges. Indirect manslaughter for profit was far more societally acceptable than one person purposefully ending lives on a smaller scale.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“You’re a people person,” he accused. “That’s probably why you’re so chirpy all the time too.”
― Isla Frost, All Is Faerie in Love and War

“Fear is a disease that will kill more surely than any blade or claw. It overrides logic, wipes out hope, and cannot be outrun. Fear will follow you back to camp, it will tax you—mind, body, and soul—when you fight and when you attempt to rest. And”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Witch

“The offense is not mine to excuse.”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Trials

“The forest was eerie at night. The verdant beauty that drew me to it during the day was absent, cloaked in shadows. Leaving only the promise of danger.”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Trials

“And in the great words of Albert Einstein: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
― Isla Frost, All Is Faerie in Love and War

“Life is rarely so straightforward as the fairy tales would have us believe. Truth. Justice. Happy endings. Life is, and excuse my alphabet, effing complicated. Should children be held responsible for their genetics or circumstances or the way they were raised? Of course not. Yet after some arbitrary span of time, we do just that. Because at some point the responsibility has to shift to them. Yet how much of who we are is a product of our nature and nurture, really? I suppose the only thing that seems unambiguous is kindness and mercy. But even those are questionable if in granting them you’re denying victims justice or closure…” He sighed. “Like I said, it’s complicated.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“People needed those greater than themselves. Or else they grew arrogant and apathetic. Petty and small-minded. Obsessed with pleasure and self at the cost of all else.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“Fine,” I said. “I’m very sorry. The next time one of us gets kidnapped and the other is chosen to be carved up like a family roast and forced into an experimental ritual, we’ll do everything we can to drag you into the disaster with us.” Bryn nodded as if this was a perfectly rational promise for me to make. “Good.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“shining with wet. He had never held me at arm’s length, never put distance between us. Instead, it was if he’d tried to pour all the love he held for my lifetime into these past seventeen years.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“Gus it is then.” Gus sighed.”
― Isla Frost, Firstborn: The Complete Series

“All you can do is examine your heart and see if you can live with the decision you made. But if the answer keeps you up at night, don’t forget to question whether the alternative would’ve let you sleep any easier. Sometimes there is no decision available that will leave you unburdened.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“When the old ways are crumbling beneath you, you can cling to the fracturing foundation with every bit of your strength in the hopes you can shore it up a little longer—or you can let go and jump.”
― Isla Frost, All Is Faerie in Love and War

“These things, especially in the health and medical industry, routinely killed far more people than the average serial killer could ever aspire to. And yet so few of them resulted in criminal charges. Indirect manslaughter for profit was far more societally acceptable than one person purposefully ending lives on a smaller scale.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“Sage and I both ignored him. “Daddy tried to make a chicken pasta salad, but it smelled real bad, so I accidentally knocked the pan onto the floor like you taught us, and then we got takeout salads and pizza.”
― Isla Frost, Dragons Are a Girl’s Best Friend

“I shoved away the cares and concerns wearing on my soul and reveled in the intense feral beauty of the present.”
― Isla Frost, Shadow Reaper