Isabel Greenberg > Quotes

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“Lesson: Men are false. And they can get away with it. Also, don't murder your sister, even by accident. Sisters are important.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The One Hundred Nights of Hero

“In the beginning there was nothing, only time. But since there was no one to count the time, there might as well have been nothing. And then there was an egg. Don't ask how it got there, OK.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“Let's form a secret society....A League. The League of Secret Storytellers.

We shall tell all the stories that are never told. Stories about bad husbands and murderous wives and mad gods and mothers and heroes and darkness and friends and sisters and lovers...

Yes! And above all...stories about brave women who don't take shit from anyone.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The One Hundred Nights of Hero

“They have a complicated saying that likens snow to love."

"It speaks of the beauty and the harshness, of watching a perfect flake land on bare skin and melt away in an instant. Of the soft powder giving way underfoot and the creeping chill of ice in your bones turning your lips blue and your fingertips black. Of terrible pain and delirious joy.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“All those stories you have told, all those wonderful stories…
They are nothing to OUR STORY. People will tell it in years to come…
And they will say, that was a story about Love.
And about two brave girls who wouldn’t take shit from anyone.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The One Hundred Nights of Hero

“Had they known the difficulties that were to befall them, they might not have been so rash in falling in love. But perhaps there was no way of avoiding it. Fate, karma, the will of the Gods… call it what you like, it was surely meant to happen. After all, in all the vastness of the Universe they had been thrown together.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“Had they known the difficulties that were to befall them, they might not have been so rash in falling in love. But perhaps there was no way of avoiding it. Fate, karma [...] call it what you like, it was surely meant to happen. After all, in all the vastness of the Universe they had been thrown together.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“A woman scored is pretty bad, but a G-d scorned is quite another.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“A woman scored is pretty bad, but a G-d scored is quite another.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“As the saying goes, too many Gods can spoil a stew ... or ... How many Genii does it take to overpopulate a small universe, is another. And the answer might be four.”
― Isabel Greenberg, Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës

“As the Frozen Sea gave way to open ocean, and the land of Nord had long been eaten up by the horizon, the Storyteller felt his heart soar. Behind him lay the old and sacred stories of his people. But in front were new stories, to be lived and learned.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“Would you recognize yourself if you saw yourself standing before you? They did, they knew in an instant.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth