Eugie Foster > Quotes

“I am chaos in this ordered society, the flaw in a carefully wrought plan. I am turbulence in the queen's eternal river.”
― Eugie Foster, Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast

“... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.”
― Eugie Foster, Beautiful Winter

“Know, Goodwife, that Faerie is shaped by storytellers. Their fantasies, their dreams give my realm life. We were dying, all of us, from the smallest nixie to highborn sidhe, for want of a storyteller.”
― Eugie Foster, The Storyteller's Wife

“Maybe the world wasn't as good as it should be. There was cruelty in it, and suffering. And life was short--far shorter than was fair... But here and now, it was perfect. And really, there was nothing more important than that.”
― Eugie Foster, Mortal Clay, Stone Heart and Other Stories in Shades of Black and White