Liesl Shurtliff > Quotes

“They say that a minute is a minute no matter where you are or what you're doing, but my brain could never grasp that. I think time is a trickster. When I have a lot to do, time shrinks, but when I want something over with, it stretches and yawns, and laughs at my torture. Sometimes the minutes hold hours inside of them.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“And that's its own kind of magic - to feel that people who are gone are still here.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“Home is a place to get out of the rain
It cradles the hurt and mends the pain
And no one cares about your name
Or the height of your head
Or the size of your brain”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“I’m sorry, ma’am. Your daughter died of laughter. It’s an infectious disease. I did everything I could.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood

“Life is like a story. It doesn't mean anything if it doesn't end.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood

“Funny, that we always told stories with wolves and beasts and demons as villains, but in real life it seemed the humans were always the worst enemies. You could be your own villain.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood

“Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person's will is more powerful than both put together.”
― Liesl Shurtliff

“A name is a powerful thing.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“Maybe destiny isn't something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“Simple needs make a simple life.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“Sometimes we have to fall down before we can stand up.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood

“It's difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you're hungry and bored.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“It's all the things in the middle that make a person special.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“No book is for everyone, but for everyone there is a book!”
― Liesl Shurtliff, The Mona Lisa Key

“Martha spouted off a long message to the gnome, including all the details of my injuries, precisely where I was, and who Martha was and her son Helmut. When she asked the gnome to repeat the message, he got it all mixed up, and so she did it again and made it longer, but he still got it all mixed up, and so they went back and forth, and finally Martha lost patience and threw him out the window. The gnome scurried away chanting, “Red for message! Red for message!”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“It is a hard thing to lose someone you love,” said Beast. “But perhaps the harder thing to lose is yourself.” Beast looked back in the mirror at her beautiful reflection. “We lose ourselves when we’re afraid.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood

“Love life more than you fear death.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood

“King Barf isn’t actually named King Barf. His real name is King Bartholomew Archibald Reginald Fife, a fine, kingly name—a name with a great destiny, of course. But I don’t care how handsome or powerful that name makes you. It’s a mouthful. So for short I call him King Barf, though I’d never say it out loud.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“All magic has consequences, Rump. Even small magic can have big consequences.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“It's hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“It’s not very ladylike.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood

“Life is like a story. It doesn’t mean anything if it doesn’t end.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood

“What's that?"
"He just fell from that tower!"
"Is he dead?"
"He's alive, I think."
Someone bent over me. "Are you alive?"
"I'm alive," I said breathlessly, "and I'm going to have a baby."
"What did he just say?"
"Something about a baby."
"A baby." I said, and then I blacked out.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“Who was the monster, here?”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood

“You don’t pretend to be anything but what you are, so I trust you more than I do other people. This world is full of pretenders. To find a friend who is genuine and trustworthy is rarer than rubies.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Grump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

“And yet we all need to reflect on ourselves from time to time, because life is one big mirror. That which we put out into the world will always come back to us.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Grump: The (Fairly) True Tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

“Just as people laugh at a name like Rump, they fear a name like Red. Red is not a name. It's a color, an evil color. What kind of destiny does that bring?”
― Liesl Shurtliff, Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

“The impossible was only impossible until someone broke the bounds of possibility.”
― Liesl Shurtliff, The Obsidian Compass