Emma > Emma's Quotes

“The past doesn't have to define you Leora. Your mistakes don't have to be for ever. There's redemption. There's always redemption.”
― Alice Broadway, Ink

“Friends, let this encourage you to live lives worthy of the calling we have received. Live lives to be remembered, friends.”
― Alice Broadway, Ink

“He is good, he is wise, he is the best of us. He is not cruel, he loves us, we will not fear. He does all things for our good.”
― Alice Broadway, Ink

“Rnesh karr slithis," I hissed back, which was Draconic for eat your own tail, the dragon version of go screw yourself. No extra translation needed.”
― Julie Kagawa, Talon

“They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet,
when I wanted to run, shout, jump, fly.”
― Julie Kagawa, Talon

“Kissing her in the ocean and feeling my entire world stop. Wishing I could be normal, if only to be with her. Because she hadn't just taught me how to surf and shoot zombies and to scream while plunging down a roller-coaster drop. She had shown me how to live.”
― Julie Kagawa, Talon

“Ember shook her head and looked down at me, her expression caught somewhere between a smile and a grimace. "Tell me my psychotic, soon-to-be-dead friend didn't just give you what I think she did."

I forced a somewhat pained smile. "I don't think I can answer that without crawling into a dark hole for the rest of the evening.”
― Julie Kagawa, Talon

“Tonight, Garret the soldier didn't exist.”
― Julie Kagawa, Talon

“I was neither human nor dragon. Just me.”
― Julie Kagawa, Talon

“You really care for them, don't you? I wouldn't have expected it."
"Well, to paraphrase a famous fictional ogre, dragons are like onions - we have layers.”
― Julie Kagawa, Talon

“Oh, we're playing nice now? Shall we have tea first? Brew up a nice pot of kiss-my-ass?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“Touch her, and I'll freeze your testicles off and put them in a jar. Understand?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“Bravo," said Grimalkin, peering down from Cold Tom's chest. "The Winter prince and Oberon's jester agreeing on something. The world must be ending.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“No, no. We can kill each other later.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“Me? Die? Didn't they tell you, princess? I'm Robin Goodfellow.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“I'm a cat.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“Yeah, Mom, Ethan’s turned into a monster and my best friend thinks he’s a faery. How was your day?”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron King

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My name is Ashallyn'darkmyr Tallyn, third son of the Unseelie Court...Let it be known--from this day forth, I vow to protect Meghan Chase, daughter of the Summer King, with my sword, my honor, and my life. Her desires are mine. Her wishes are mine. Should even the world stand against her, my blade will be at her side. And should it fail to protect her, let my own existence be forfeit. This I swear, on my honor, my True Name, and my life. From this day on..." His voice went even softer, but I still heard it as though he whispered it into my ear. "I am yours.”
― Julie Kagawa, The Iron Queen

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?”
― Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007