Emily Winfield Martin > Quotes

“To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said, 'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“This is the first time there has ever been a you, so I wonder what wonderful things you will do.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, The Wonderful Things You Will Be

“Snow and Rose didn't know that they were living in a fairy tale--people never do.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“And then I'll look at you
And you'll look at me
And I'll love you,
Whoever you've grown up to be”
― Emily Winfield Martin, The Wonderful Things You Will Be

“The only way is the scary way.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“When I look at you and you look at me,
I wonder what wonderful things you will be.”
― Emily Winfield Martin

“You loved me even as a beast... In the lonely spell, your love gave me strength.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“Rose couldn't say to Snow, to insist to her, that sometimes you lose someone in a way that means he will never read to you, or say good night or swing his around you again.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“Rose pictured herself as a tidy bow, and Snow was a wild tangle.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“To find out what a story's really about," the Librarian said, "you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“To find out what a story’s really about,’ the Librarian said, ‘You don’t ask the writer. You ask the reader.”
― Emily Winfield Martin

“There animals from long ago and twice as far away. Their maps are made of starlight and can't be seen by day.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey

“La madre non sorrideva mai. Non dipingeva, non scolpiva, non faceva niente di quello che faceva prima. Si aggirava come una sonnambula, i movimenti e le conversazioni meccanici e distanti. Era più fragile di quanto fosse mai stata, ma avvolta da una pesante cappa di tristezza. E un mantello del genere occupava molto spazio in una casa tanto piccola.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“Con Biancaneve so sempre cosa c'è che non va. Lei è trasparente come il vetro. Tu, invece, sei... sei fatta di una materia attraverso la quale non riesco a vedere. Legno, forse. O latte. Sei enigmatica. La mia bambina enigmatica.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose

“On New Year's morning, the rest of the house stirred into motion, welcoming the tiny newcomer into a family that was hardly ordinary, but rather . . . extraordinary. A family stitched together from the scraps of other families.”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Oddfellow's Orphanage

“A feeling of celebration spread through the woods as the changed ones found their long-forgotten voices”
― Emily Winfield Martin, Snow & Rose