A.C.H. Smith > Quotes

“Just fear me and love me...and do as I say...and I will be your slave.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you.
I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Give me the child. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great.
You have no power over me”
― A.C.H. Smith

“An owl is born with all his questions answered.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“You are cruel, Sarah. We are well matched, you and I. I need your cruelty, just as you need mine.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again.
A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go.
The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some
distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other,
commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the
direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes
looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions. ”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“She wondered what was the point of doing anything. She might as well go this way, or that, or stand still, or cry. Maybe just havin' yourself a good time was the best anyone could hope for.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Quite often, young lady, it seems we're not getting anywhere, when in fact we are.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Sometimes," the Wise Man observed, "to need is...to let go.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“En alguna parte al borde de tu imaginación
hay un Laberinto
Se tuerce y gira como malvados pensamientos,
y nadie... ningún hombre, mujer o niño...
ha alcanzado nunca el centro.

Allí,
dentro de las paredes de la Ciudad de los Goblins,
está el castillo de Jareth,
el rey de los goblins.

Los Goblins son asquerosas criaturitas
cuyo mayor deleite es robar bebés
y convertirlos en goblins.

Pero esto solo puede ocurrir
si tú lo deseas.

Debes pronunciar las palabras adecuadas
para que el deseo se convierta en realidad.

"Deseo que los goblins vengan
y se te lleven ahora mismo" son las palabras correctas.

Cuando los Goblins las oigan,
vendrán...

y vinieron”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Then you will find what you want only as long as you stay in your dream. Once abandon it, and you are at the mercy of other people's dreams. They will make of you what they want you to be. Forget them, Sarah, trust to your dream.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Everything altered. The room was the same as it had always been, night and morning, day after day for as long as Sarah could remember, but she was seeing it with new eyes. It was all fabricated from pieces of scrap, everything was rubbish, relics. All her things, the furniture, even the walls, the whole room was a garbage heap, a dead shrine to a spirit that had fled.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“It had no end and therefore no beginning, yet it progressed. Thus it was timeless, infinitely present and so could be taken to be a representation of time, which cannot be pictured by those who imagine themselves linear subjects to it.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“In the winter of hope, the mind craves change.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“-Algunas veces-observó el Hombre Sabio- necesitar es... dejar marchar.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen, ya sabes, no aquí”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“I said lots of things. Too many. Nobody to talk to, that's why.”
― A.C.H. Smith

“Jen represented hope; and hope, she instinctively knew, would always be shadowed with pain, just as her despair, now, in the niche behind the tapestry, was shadowed with something like opposite of pain--a numbed uncaring, an acceptance of the thrall of death, almost a fervent wish for it.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“Wisdom is not for knowing but for understanding.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“El camino que vuelve atrás... es el camino que va hacia adelante.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Was the past always stalking the present, waiting to destroy it? UrSu had told him that a two-dimensional question like that had no solution, and therefore no meaning. "Make a triangle with a past, present, and future. Then each two will explain the third.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“How strange, he relfected, that at a time of calamity he should gain something simple and strong and, perhaps, precious. Were all good and true lessons to be learned only at such cost?”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“Nada era justo. Si esperabas justicia, siempre quedarías desilusionado.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Con bastante frecuencia, jovencita, parece que no llegamos a ninguna parte, cuando de hecho ya estamos allí.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Life presents more alternatives than choices.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“¿Acaso no buscamos algo todos? Pero antes tenemos que mantener los ojos bien abiertos, si es que vamos a encontrar alguna cosa.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Look, that moss there, it hums. Listen to it." Jen listened and heard. "Now the trees," Kira told him. "It's something like a whistle, or a sigh. And you see the bubbles on the water. Listen to them, Jen. You must always listen. There is always music to be heard. You can hear the percussion of the water rippling. The music we make is only a part of it.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“El camino que va hacia adelante algunas veces vuelve atrás”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film