Jaclyn Dolamore > Quotes

“Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Glass

“I furrowed my eyebrows."Are you looking at my bosom, sir?"

The eyes snapped back up. "At such a serious moment? What do you take me for?"

"A rogue, I believe." I tried not to smile.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Glass

“How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength!”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“Her best smile seemed to be for him alone.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Between the Sea and Sky

“In my heart, I love books, I love writing. I love the lines of letters on a page.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Between the Sea and Sky

“If one spends too many hours in solitude, one starts to emote for one’s own benefit.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Glass

“At night I dream of things I scoff at by day.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Glass

“Once you commit to something, you just manage through each moment. And nothing truly awful happened. The voyage over was uneventful. I found work right away, just not very good work. The worst thing wasn't something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“Even now, I hoped he would take my hand, and when he didn't, I felt my empty hand as if it were missing a finger.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“They were full of mysteries and secrets, like... like poems turned into landscapes."

"'Poems turned into landscapes.'" he murmured with a slight smile. "And what of Vestenveld's gardens? Do you see poems in them?"

"Your gardens are like your country's poetry. Very frilly and organized.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Glass

“You ought to use a little of that siren song on Alan, my pearl. The boy needs to loosen his cravat.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Between the Sea and Sky

“The worst thing wasn’t something terrible, it was the lack of anything wonderful.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“We were a mess of cultures, and nothing matched, but I found it all the more fun for that.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“The country is not there to lull you any more than I was. The people there don’t think they are different, they are going about their normal business, and sometimes I felt that, while you respected me more than other men, you romanticized me. Someone or someplace that is romanticized can’t be real.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“I don’t want to become a queen to someone’s king,” Violet said fiercely. “I want to be queen on my own.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Magic Under Stone

“Sometimes I see her face in my dreams," he said. "I can't wait to remember the woman it belongs to.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Dark Metropolis

“But it hurt. It was like a thousand tiny cuts on her soul.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Dark Metropolis

“She went to church every week because of Mother and because she wanted something more meaningful than work, but some days the world seemed too unfair, too random, and too ugly for faith of any kind. Other days it was too beautiful not to believe in something. And in a moment like this, she wasn't sure which it was.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Dark Metropolis

“If you take all my memories, you can tell me anything, but you can't make me believe it.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Dark Metropolis

“It was a powerful feeling, to comfort someone.”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, Dark Metropolis

“And instruments of evil,” another man said. “They tear up the earth with their mining and refine her fruits into weapons of war.” The”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, The Sorcerer's Equal

“The Spirit Realm, realm of beauty No one knows fate’s secrets Judgment or blessing No man can say T”
― Jaclyn Dolamore, The Sorcerer's Wife