Margaret Greaves > Quotes

“Mirabelle loved the forest. It was cool and full of shadows and little shifting pools of sunlight. It was strange and secret, full of unknown things, magic things perhaps. It sheltered flocks of colored birds, and rabbits and squirrels and the big-eyed, delicate-footed deer. It breathed with the scent of flowers and the sound of running water, and at night it held all the stars in its branches.”
― Margaret Greaves, A Net to Catch the Wind

“Night horrors! Dark deformities! Have you come to dance at Prince Ivan's fate? Then dance you shall. Dance!”
― Margaret Greaves, Ballet Stories

“With a rush of bright wings overhead, the Firebird flashed down to alight between him and his enemy. The evil torchlight paled and shrank in the radiance that flowed from her, like candles put out by the sun.”
― Margaret Greaves, Ballet Stories

“Darkness and evil had vanished for ever, as a dream is dissolved by day.”
― Margaret Greaves, Ballet Stories

“With a rush of bright wings overhead, the Firebird flashed down to alight between him and his enemy. The evil torchlight paled and shrank in the radiance that flowed from her, like candles out out by the sun.”
― Margaret Greaves, Ballet Stories