Regina Doman > Quotes

“Every once in a while you just have to decide to do something very crazy and very right--just to dare yourself to live. I don't mean doing something stupid and destructive--just something fun and good and beautiful.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.”
― Regina Doman

“How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?"

"Look it up in the phrase book.”
― Regina Doman, Black as Night

“I won't get killed,' Rose protested.
Is that a promise?' Fish asked dryly, stirring his tea. 'If you break your word, I'll never believe you again.'
Rose shook her head at him. 'How can you even taste your tea if you put that much sugar in it?'
Don't change the subject. I don't want to be responsible for depriving the world of Rose Brier. Under no circumstances are you allowed to help us do anything more dangerous than...change the oil in my car.”
― Regina Doman

“There are billions of men in the world, probably millions near my age. Maybe hundreds who are compatible with me. Maybe at least a dozen who would want to date me. There's got to be at least five on the continent whom I could probably marry. So why am I so hung up on this one guy?”
― Regina Doman, Waking Rose

“There was a silence. Then Paul looked at Alex.
'She knows Chesterton.'
'She lives,' said Alex.”
― Regina Doman, Waking Rose

“The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.'
'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.”
― Regina Doman

“I shall have twenty cats and talk to them all," she said, picking up the volume of poetry. "My cats and I shall have fish every day for dinner." Her imagination taking flight, she finished, dropping the book into the box, "And I shall memorize every line in this book and paint it in calligraphy on my living room walls.”
― Regina Doman, Waking Rose

“She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to her knees in a long flowered dress, and had said to her, without thinking, "Are you a princess?" The girl had laughed very kindly at her and asked her what her name was. Blanche remembered going away from her, led by her mother's hand, thinking to herself that the girl really was a princess, but in disguise. And she had resolved that someday, she would dress as though she were a princess in disguise.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations.”
― Regina Doman

“Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.'

'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.”
― Regina Doman, Waking Rose

“Can you imagine anything more tragic?' Rose asked. 'To be born a princess --native and to the manor born-- and then to forget who you are and settle for being something horrible like an--an accountant!”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.”
― Regina Doman, Waking Rose

“Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?'

'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last.

'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.'

'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.”
― Regina Doman, Black as Night

“Hello again, violinist,' he said in a hoarse voice. 'Fancy meeting you here.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“Fish sighed and reached for the hotel phone. 'How do you say, "Bring me steak and eggs or I'll slit your throat" in Italian?' he asked.”
― Regina Doman

“I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs.”
― Regina Doman

“His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“My skin's too white." she said.

Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.”
― Regina Doman

“Evil things often look beautiful.

But that's because they've stolen the beauty from the good.... Evil isn't beautiful on its own.”
― Regina Doman

“There's something strange about you-" she started to say.
Oh, well, thanks!" he chuckled, his brown eyes twinkling at her.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?' Rose asked, turning her mug around in her hands.

Bear relaxed a bit more deeply into the couch, and put on a mock-solemn look. 'Explain thyself.'

'As though there's a story going on that everyone is a part of, but not everybody knows about? Maybe 'story' isn't the right word- a sort of drama, a battle between what's peripheral and whats really important. As though the people you meet aren't just their plain, prosaic selves but are actually princes and princesses, gods and goddesses, fairies, shepherds, all sorts of fantastic creatures who've chosen to hide their real shapes for some reason or another. Have you ever thought that?”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“You're drinking in the joy of life,' Bear told her when she tried to explain why she was laughing. 'There's so much opportunity for drinking deeply of it, and we very rarely do it. When you do, it makes you feel alive all over.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.”
― Regina Doman, The Shadow of the Bear

“The world was still a turbulent and uncertain place. And there were serpents.

But serpents still make the world a place for adventures, Rose reminded herself.”
― Regina Doman, Waking Rose