Alma Alexander > Quotes

“If you really want to be a writer, nobody can stop you -- and if you don't, nobody can help you.”
― Alma Alexander

“There are moths outside, ready to die for a light they crave but which is denied to them, shielded from them [...] Sometimes, in the midst of all I have been given, I watch the moths in us all. Everybody has a light which they think they cannot live without.”
― Alma Alexander, The Secrets of Jin-shei

“You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..”
― Alma Alexander, Spellspam

“But still they turn from it, all of them, and bat their wings against their own impossible dreams.”
― Alma Alexander, The Secrets of Jin-shei

“It's like somebody stuffed him in a barrel full of moonshine-proof cluelessness and then left him there to get pickled in it while it fermented into malice.”
― Alma Alexander, Random

“It is Pau-kala. The branch is still bare. The old tree's leaves will never return - they are a memory and a song. But there is a sapling, there is a sapling right beside that old tree, and it's trembling with promise. There will be a spring again.”
― Alma Alexander