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

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

“I know you'll be kind and clever and bold. And the bigger your heart the more it will hold. When nights are black and when days are gray, you'll be brave and bright so no shadows can stay. And become anybody that you'd like to be. 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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