James Riley > Quotes

“Whaaaaaat is going on?" May whispered out of the corner of her mouth.
"I'm sort of comforted by the fact that I can't figure it out," Jack responded.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“Listen, last time I talked to you three, you were all two oars short of having any oars, so I don't want to hear it.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“Why imagine a world in your head when you could just go visit another one in a book?”
― James Riley, Story Thieves

“These are challenges,” Jack told her. “That’s it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn’t matter if you’re in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We’re going to win because we’re good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble.”
― James Riley, Half Upon a Time

“War breaks out between the colors blue and red, though green seems jealous that it wasn’t involved. Yellow, meanwhile, hides in the corner.”
― James Riley, Once Upon the End

“Oh, so close!" she said, her smile getting wider. "But close only counts in horseshoes and dragon fire.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“I like that color you turn. It makes you look like a tomato. A very dignified tomato. A tomato above all other tomatoes, one that rules his garden with a squishy iron fist.”
― James Riley, Once Upon the End

“There are those two German brothers offering to pay gold for stories," the golden imp said. "And there's a human in France who is looking for the same thing. And one in Denmark.”
― James Riley, Once Upon the End

“See, I like to think the point of life is to be happy,” Jack said with a shrug. “Also maybe not almost dying every two minutes. But I can see how we’ll have to agree to disagree here.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“He was finally able to out-vague the Charmed One!”
― James Riley, Once Upon the End

“JACK!” May yelled. “NOW! SWORD HIM! SWORD HIM IN HIS FACE!”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“If a boy with a lightning scar on his forehead happened to be sitting next to you and you’d never heard of Harry Potter, why would you even notice?”
― James Riley, The Stolen Chapters

“The others just stopped and stared at him. “Correct me if I be wrong, little man,” Bluebeard said, “but ye do be wishin’ to live, aye? And ye do know that the Fish King will gut ye like a trout if he gets ahold a’ye?” “Basically Bluebeard’s calling you stupid,” May translated helpfully.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“He frantically tried to bite his lips closed to keep from saying anything else, but his lips just pushed out into a fish-face expression to escape his teeth. Ugh, those clever lips of his!”
― James Riley, Story Thieves

“When the birds had all flown, the monkey landed on May’s pillow and smacked it, letting her know it was time to get up. Or more likely that he was hungry. Or wanted to annoy her. There were plenty of options. May”
― James Riley, Once Upon the End

“A fictional cat now lived in his house. That went well with his robotic heart.”
― James Riley, The Stolen Chapters

“Fakin’? No,” the captain said, giving her a careful stare. “But don’t be misunderestimatin’ Captain Bluebeard anytime soon, lassie. I don’t be who ye think I be!” “You be someone without a good grasp on yer grammar, is who I think ye be,” May pointed out.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“You’re right, Phillip!” May said, slamming a hand down on the railing. “Let’s go jump in the ocean and try not to drown, just to annoy my grandmother!”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“Alphonse, Kiel’s winged cat,”
― James Riley, Story Thieves

“He grinned. “Like when you’re right in the middle of the worst adventure imaginable, but for a minute, it’s just about sitting on a boat in the middle of the ocean with your friends, with no one trying to kill you in any kind of horrifying way. You have to appreciate these moments when they happen, ’cause obviously we don’t get many of them.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“There in the car was a bright-orange blob, vaguely human-shaped, but evil for sure.”
― James Riley, Secret Origins

“the guards had May in front of them, with what seemed to be a monkey tail growing out the back of her shirt. Okay, that was new.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“You are awake,” Phillip said from his side. “I feared you were permanently injured.” “The day’s still young,” Jack told him, his head”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“Thousand years, billion dollars,” May said to the monkey. “You. PAY.”
― James Riley, Twice Upon a Time

“Jack glanced at the old man, whose eyes were about as big as dinner plates. Jack just nodded with understanding. “You think that’s all weird, I should tell you about a witch and her house of candy sometime,” he whispered. Upstairs,”
― James Riley, Once Upon the End

“She did ask where he’d been, though, and he obviously told the truth: He’d been helping Bethany, who was half-fictional, find her missing father in a superhero comic, only to be thrown into a Pick the Plot book by a fictional man named Nobody, who had then separated the fictional and nonfictional worlds and sent Owen and Bethany back to the nonfictional world through the last open portal between their worlds, the one that led to Neverland. And since that portal connected to London, that’s where they emerged.”
― James Riley, Worlds Apart

“Each and every book in the library had a ball of light directly in front of it. Every single book.”
― James Riley, The Stolen Chapters

“As usual, it was a mess, like a hurricane had plowed into a nuclear bomb right around the Rick Riordan books.”
― James Riley, Story Thieves

“Somehow, miraculously, Owen made it a good thirty seconds before tripping and landing on his face.”
― James Riley, Secret Origins

“WHOA. So not only do I have some guy’s eyeball on my back, but it also has the essence of a dead guy in it? Do you understand why I’m having some issues with this? Also, how big was this guy that this thing could be part of his eye?!”
― James Riley, Once Upon the End