Clare B. Dunkle > Quotes

“Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.”
― Clare B. Dunkle

“Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!”
― Clare B. Dunkle, Close Kin

“Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, Close Kin

“Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the current, and the taps and creaks and croaks that rose with the mist around me. Overhead swing the glittering stars, and the bright moon shone down and lit the curling ripples of the water. At no time in my life had I been in greater danger from the elements, and yet if I learned that heaven is such as that night was, I should deem it a joy worth the dying.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The House of Dead Maids

“Perhaps she had learned already those lessons in life that make smiling difficult.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!"

"Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Sky Inside

“For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Sky Inside

“You've caught a goblin, my dear, all for your very own.”
― Clare B. Dunkle

“Indeed it is, Kate,’ Marak agreed. ‘It’s time to plan your revenge. Goblins just adore revenge.’ He grinned. ‘Do you have anything in mind?’

Kate was taken aback. ‘Revenge is wrong,’ she told him solemnly. ‘Vengeance belongs to God.’

The goblin put his head to one side and watched her through narrowed eyes. ‘You won’t even give God a little help?’ he asked softly.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Hollow Kingdom

“Then-then I'm not going to die? Well, then-crap!-what am I doing here, Anyway?”
― Clare B. Dunkle, The Sky Inside

“It’s a prison. It’s twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can do, all day long, is look for ways to survive. Nobody needs to teach us tricks. We brainstorm our own tricks all day long. When real anorexics compare notes, we’ve already figured out all the same tricks—and each one of us did it on our own.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother's Life with a Daughter's Anorexia

“Catspaw was becoming a real goblin king.”
― Clare B. Dunkle, Close Kin