Amy Wolf > Quotes

“Is there life before death?”
― Amy Wolf, Don't Let Me Die in a Motel 6; or, One Woman's Struggle Through the Great Recession

“Get to the point,” said the Sphinx. “I’m immortal, but now I wish I wasn’t.”
― Amy Wolf, The Twelve Labors of Nick

“We could all use a little redemption.”
― Amy Wolf, After Avalon

“I spent the next few minutes ducking as these objects flew past my head: a leg of mutton, a side of beef, a tart oozing with pear, and a line of pewter plates. When I could, I withdrew my new blade, seeing through flying foodstuffs that my friends were likewise assailed. Gad, poor devil, took on such a quantity of flour he looked fit for the roasting pan!”
― Amy Wolf, A Woman of the Road

“My ultimate aim is to live in a bubble city under a fluorescent sun.”
― AMY WOLF

“The dry yellow heath of the moors rose around us on all sides. It was like walking on the sun.”
― Amy Wolf, The Misses Brontë's Establishment

“And you are not a nun?'
Elaine started to laugh, then saw that he was serious.
'Well, at this point, it’s debatable.”
― Amy Wolf, L.A. Knight

“This way,' Sid whispered, leading her to a silver pole stretching up past their view. He grasped it with four taloned claws, inching his way up.
'What do I look like, a fireman?' Mattie hissed.”
― AMY WOLF, A School for Dragons

“I’m Hermes!” this guy hissed. “See the wings on the helmet?”
“Are you here to deliver flowers?”
Hermes rolled his eyes.
“A typical centaur, ignorant as a beast.”
― Amy Wolf, The Further Labors of Nick

“It was all up to a roll of the metastasizing dice.”
― AMY WOLF, Don't Let Me Die in a Motel 6; or, One Woman's Struggle Through the Great Recession

“I want to live in a bubble city under a florescent sun.”
― Amy Wolf

“Nick to Cyclops: “Are you Bronte?”
“Arges. I know, we all look alike.”
― Amy Wolf, The Further Labors of Nick

“Now. This ass must alight from his ass,” Jeffries said.”
― Amy Wolf, A Woman of the Road

“On seeing Proteus: he saw what the pile was: an old man, his body wrapped in kelp, his long white hair strewn with seaweed. Ick, Nick thought, this guy could be served with sushi!”
― Amy Wolf, The Twelve Labors of Nick

“How could this be? I thought. To find the one Customs man unwilling to be bribed? I nearly wept for England.”
― Amy Wolf, A Woman of the Road and Sea

“Nikólaos,” said Helen, “you must show your father respect. He is in charge of all centaurs, beloved by the gods, and immortal.”
“But ignores his own son,” Nick said bitterly. He turned to his dad. “So, how many of us kids are there? Enough to run the Derby?”
― Amy Wolf, The Twelve Labors of Nick

“After a nine-headed Hydra, the ACT was kind of a letdown.”
― Amy Wolf, The Twelve Labors of Nick

“Flattery is the highest form of praise." - Carnatus”
― Amy Wolf, A Woman of the Road

“Is nothing real in Los Angeles?'
Elaine considered this. 'Actually, no.”
― AMY WOLF, L.A. Knight

“This parting from my child was hard: harder than seeing Aventis nearly die from Plague; than feeling the hangman’s noose cinch around my own neck. All of my natural instincts, which, as “Megs,” I had thought long gone, now rose from the grave like a wight.”
― Amy Wolf, A Woman of the Road and Sea

“Never liked the Dutch. Their ships are too dam’d swift.” -- Carnatus”
― Amy Wolf, A Woman of the Road and Sea

“Would it kill you,” she [the Sphinx] called, “to maybe one time bring a ram’s head?”
― Amy Wolf, The Further Labors of Nick

“How many girls’ schools have expelled you?'
'This is number six,' Emma volunteered.' Papa, is Maria going to Paris? Is she?'
'No, Emma, nor anywhere else on the Continent. But she is going _somewhere_, to be sure.”
― Amy Wolf, The Misses Brontë's Establishment

“Would it kill you,” she (the Shinx) called, “to maybe one time bring a ram’s head?”
― Amy Wolf, The Further Labors of Nick

“Cromwell only looked disgusted, but I felt the sensation down to the pit of my soul. This woman, I thought, wears a disguise to amuse, while I adopt mine in order to be free. When I looked at her, what I saw was not an ally, but a mere pretender.”
― Amy Wolf, A Woman of the Road

“It was somehow fitting that the true beginning and the end of a life occurred in the same sacred house. Anne would have praised God and Emily would have laughed. On this day, their presence was fully with me, and I am sure that Charlotte—now kissing the man she loved despite everything the world had thrown at her—felt the same twined souls invisibly at her side.”
― Amy Wolf, The Misses Brontë's Establishment

“The outdoors is best viewed from inside.”
― AMY WOLF

“Later that night, from the comfort of the big moss bed, Artorius gave Mattie’s shoulder a pat. 'I am so sorry about my family,' he said.
'Don’t worry. That’s what best friends are for.'
'_Your_ mom was a lot nicer.'
'But she kicked you out, remember? All parents are pains.'
'I guess.”
'There’s just one thing I don’t understand.'
Artorius blinked. '_One_ thing?'
Mattie lowered her voice. 'With a family like that, how’d you come out normal?'
'Ever hear of therapy?”
― AMY WOLF, A School for Dragons