Liz Braswell > Quotes

“You had a magic mirror that let you see life outside your tiny world. Your castle. I had books. Reading them is like traveling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives. It made life far less...lonely.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Your generation has no sense of responsibility to a group, a calling higher than your own. You treat random friends like family and family like strangers. You want to dither your life away, pursuing one pleasure after another. That is not a path; that is a waste of life.”
― Liz Braswell, The Nine Lives of Chloe King

“She wished, just once, someone would show an interest in the same things she did”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“I cannot expect people to do for me what I cannot.”
― Liz Braswell, A Whole New World

“Rooms of books.
When other children dreamed of mansions with fountains and big silky beds and servants to do their bidding, this was what Belle dreamed about. The money to buy all the books she ever wanted from all over the world- and a place to keep them.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“...and you cannot blame an entire group for the actions of one.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“I'm fairly certain our gardens are rat-free."
"I don't know. Rats are pretty sneaky. Sometimes they even make it into elected positions. Sometimes if you let them get out of control they even become mayor.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“It’s not bravery if you don’t feel fear, right? If you’re not afraid, then you’re not really forcing yourself to do something brave.”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“Books can tell you almost everything that mankind knows. Or imagines.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Magic comes back to you, just as the actions of people do.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Life is a strange mixture of all of these genres, she mused, and it doesn’t have nearly as neat and happy an ending as you often get in books.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Having the freedom to choose is better than having everything you want.”
― Liz Braswell, A Whole New World

“When you're young, you think the world will make room for who you are and what you want.... And then you find the world of adults is even more limiting than the world of children. With no room for adventure, much less yer own thoughts.”
― Liz Braswell, Straight On Till Morning

“Of course you're here, in my- sanctum sanctorum. You always have been. You always will be. You're the Nonsense in my head that mustn't be ignored. You're the piece of me that maddens everyone, my sister the most."
The Hatter gave her a tired smile and said nothing- which might have been the wisest thing he ever said.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Every age has its darkness.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Save their world. But... come back to mine."
"That's rather forward of you, Mr. Cat."
He grinned. But it wasn't just like the Cheshire Cat's smile. There was warmth in it, and even love.
"I'm not the single young lady who goes knocking on strange barristers' doors," he pointed out.
"Hmmph," Alice said, sniffing. "Excellent point.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Everyone should have a journey—and everyone should also have a home, too. Go out into the world for adventure, come home for love.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“I have mine and you have yours
It's needed in a painting
But in the end none agree on
the meaning of the thing.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“There is always magic. Even if you can't see it.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“He looked like the living embodiment of fearlessness, of seizing whatever the moment brought and assuming it would all work out somehow.”
― Liz Braswell, Straight On Till Morning

“You've become a queen, a woman with a complicated personality. You have hidden depths and a wisdom and intelligence that all went unnoticed before by an idiot prince whose heart couldn't listen to anything his ears couldn't hear."
Ariel felt a little giddy. "I control storms and the heart of a prince. I like that." If she were in the sea she would have been swooning, thrashing her tail and spinning in circles until she was dizzy.”
― Liz Braswell, Part of Your World

“Trying to steel her nerves, she walked forward more forcefully, as if this were her choice. As if she were just going to seek out a mystery she forgot. Not a scared, lonely girl in her nightgown with a candle, like some daft heroine from one of the lighter romance books she read. This thought, too, gave her courage; she was Belle, not an idiot.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“In adventure books there weren't awkward pauses or embarrassing social scenes. In morality plays and farces there were rarely serious discussions of racial tension, mob mentality, pogroms, or plague. In scientific books there were no dinnertime revelations of a terrible matter.
'Life is a strange mixture of all of these genres,' she mused, 'and it doesn't have nearly as neat and happy an ending as you often get in books.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Her eyes were full of hate. Full. And... at the same time, empty. Soulless. Like those horrible creatures she keeps around her. The dragon was frightening... but Maleficent, she was bone-chilling.”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream

“Alice wondered, perhaps for the first time-although certainly not the last-if all human conflicts were started by men who thought they were doing it for a woman.”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“You can't have adventures without risk. You can't have great things if you constantly fear loss.”
― Liz Braswell, As Old as Time

“Hands she has but does not hold; teeth she has but does not bite; feet she has but they are cold; eyes she has but without sight”
― Liz Braswell, Unbirthday

“Before I ran away, my closest friend was a tiger."
Aladdin laughed softly. "Before I met you, my closest friend was a monkey." He kissed her on the forehead. "We're quite a pair.”
― Liz Braswell, A Whole New World

“He first saw her in a ray of sunshine. She was dancing and singing in a forest clearing, her golden hair sparkling as it swirled around her. Her voice was the very essence of a happy, sunny day distilled into song. She was as weightless on her toes as golden motes in a drowsy beam, floating their way up to the ceiling.”
― Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream