Stephanie Burgis > Quotes

“I was twelve years of age when I cut my hair short, became a highwayman, and captured husbands for both of my sisters.

I could hardly wait to find out what would happen next.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Kat, Incorrigible

“I was twelve years of age when I chopped off my hair, dressed as a boy, and set off to save my family from impending ruin.

I made it almost to the end of my front garden.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Kat, Incorrigible

“For me, Mama's cabinet had been full of mysteries and secrets to be puzzled out, like an adventure. For them it had been full of memories. And I had broken all of them.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Kat, Incorrigible

“..A hawk soared over our carriage, letting out a high, piercing cry of defiance, and I wanted to jump out of the window and fly with it”
― Stephanie Burgis, Kat, Incorrigible

“Grim determination was one thing. Outright heroism before I’d drunk my morning tea was quite another...”
― Stephanie Burgis, Snowspelled

“Humans were a dragon’s most dangerous prey.”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart

“For God’s sake, man!” Frederick Carlyle bellowed across the room. “At least wait until you’re alone before you kiss her, if you please! Remember, her family is watching you, and we haven’t had our dinner yet!”
― Stephanie Burgis, Courting Magic

“If all that mattered were my feelings, i would be on my knees before you right now, worshiping you in every way you could imagine. I would devote the rest of my life to proving exactly how desperate i am for you, body and soul. You would never be left any reason to doubt it.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Wooing the Witch Queen

“All you need in life is wings and chocolate”
― Stephanie Burgis

“Again and again I heard birds calling, just begging to be eaten.”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart

“Well, I know that a lie of omission, intended to deceive, is just as unethical as a statement of mistruth.”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Princess who Flew with Dragons

“It was a truth universally acknowledged that any young lady without a dragon was doomed to social failure.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Scales and Sensibility

“I will never choose to hide who I am for the sake of imagined safety.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Wooing the Witch Queen

“He was puny and insignificant, and he was trying to keep me from my chocolate?”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart

“Allies fought by each other's side, but they didn't steal each other's battles.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Good Neighbors: The Full Collection

“It’s not good enough for things to be easy for us. They have to be fair for everyone in Angland. And no, we won’t achieve true parity this year, with this particular school, or even in our own lifetimes. But we must do what we can to move forward as a nation—and give our descendants the chance to do better.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Thornbound

“There was something tingling at the edge of her hearing, almost like a whisper - more than one? - Trying to reach her from far away.”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Raven Heir: The Raven Crown, Book 1

“Scales or not, I was still a dragon.”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart

“Real family is worth waiting for.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Good Neighbors: The Full Collection

“I love it! And I'm going to write the best handbills about it. Just you wait and see what I can do!
-Silke”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Girl with the Dragon Heart

“If there was one thing even harder than protecting our families, it was letting them choose for themselves which risks to take.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Good Neighbors: The Full Collection

“I am strong enough to know that I don't have to pretend, anymore, about who and what I am. I'm even strong enough to fail.”
― Stephanie Burgis

“If doing the right thing counts as betraying the family, then we have the wrong sort of family...”
― Stephanie Burgis, Good Neighbors: The Full Collection

“If there was nothing left to hope for, he'd thought, then at least there was nothing left to fear.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Wooing the Witch Queen

“I yanked my eyes violently away from the soft-looking skin of his neck. “We could tell everyone that I snore.” A wicked glint lit his dark eyes. “You think that would put me off? I’m no coward.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Good Neighbors: The Full Collection

“She blackmailed them with this after stealing it from me. She can be really ruthless, can't she? And she's getting much better at crime. Had you noticed that, too?
-Fedolia”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Princess who Flew with Dragons

“Humanity and wildness, heart and spirit and fierce protection, all tie together once more in a bond that must never be broken.”
― Stephanie Burgis, The Raven Heir

“It seems,” I said to my ex-fiancé in as calm a tone as I could muster, “you may have a chance to discuss non-human methods of weather prediction after all...because I’m reasonably certain that we are standing on a troll.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Snowspelled

“Elissa pulled away from Stepmama and rose to her feet. She gazed down at Mr Collingwood’s tormented face and smoothed back the jet-black hair from his fore- head. I could have sworn I saw a glowing halo rise around her as she spoke. “You must forgive me, my love, and learn to forget me, for my sake.”

“Oh, my Lord,” I said. “You’ve been waiting your whole life for this, haven’t you?”

“Can you doubt it?” said Angeline. “Look at the two of them! He’s as bad as she is.”
― Stephanie Burgis, Kat, Incorrigible