Kaytlin Phillips > Quotes

“For Dad, Thanks for being late to supper that day! And for always encouraging us to write!”
― Kaytlin Phillips, Unfortunate Events

“Talikin”
― Kaytlin Phillips, Unfortunate Events

“I felt as left out and alone as a book no one wanted to read.”
― Kaytlin Phillips, World of Silence

“The fire in our blood doomed us to this horrendous fate.”
― Kaytlin Phillips, Emberling

“Two outcasts banding together. One who doesn’t fit in and the other who lives in a world of silence. Together we can change their minds and show them what outcasts can do.”
― Kaytlin Phillips, World of Silence

“I teetered on the edge of this decision like a tall, delicately balanced stack of books, ready to fall at any moment. I felt like the book in the middle, the one that would decide which way the stack fell. This decision would decide the fate of not only my life but of an entire kingdom. All of it, everything around me, depended on me.
Which way would I make the stack fall? Would it be an awful crash that we could never recover from, or would it be a glorious crash and a start to a new way of life?”
― Kaytlin Phillips, World of Silence

“The Mannada birds' cheery thrill echoed in the still air, mocking me. Why did those birds seem to sing at my worst moments? Glad in the worst moments of my life. In the times when everything I held dear was being stripped away from me. When it seemed as if Elohim Himself had turned His back on the lowly Embress.”
― Kaytlin Phillips, Emberling

“You are the most stubborn, horse-brained man I have ever known, Mal."
"I take that's a compliment?" I wheezed a laugh and shifted Iya.
"Not really."
"Should be.”
― Kaytlin Phillips, Emberling