Emalia > Emalia's Quotes

“What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?”
― Delia Sherman, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.”
― Charles de Lint

“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

“But it's hard to leave a place when you're tied to it by fear, when it's broken you with fear, when it's all you've ever known.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“He lived in a dreamer's world of ivory keys and messy shirts, unconcerned with the people around him.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“But how can she change a person like that? said Victoria.

She just can. I'd never have thought before, ever, that I could hate music and want to leave it behind, but now--

Lawrence Prewitt, said Victoria. Her voice was shaking, but she stood up and put on such a fierce dazzle that even Donovan seemed to wake up. Don't you dare ever start talking like that again, or when I get out of here, I'll leave you behind with the gofers. Lawrence smiled. I've missed your threats, Vicky.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“But you’re supposed to play music, obviously,” said Victoria.
Lawrence looked at her in surprise.
“You mean it? I thought you hated it.”
“I do mean it,” said Victoria. She felt pretty shocked herself. “It’s annoying sometimes—well, a lot of the time, really—but it’s obviously the thing you’re best at, so why shouldn’t you do it?” Embarrassed at how happy Lawrence looked, she tried to smooth the wrinkles out of her dirty pajamas. “I mean, it’s only logical, isn’t it?”

“If you weren’t, well, you—I’d want to kiss you right now.”
It was fortunate that the room was so dark. Victoria’s cheeks turned bright red.
“Well,” she said. “Well.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“You were looking for me?

Victoria wondered if she would be red for the rest of her life. Yes.

Isn't that something. Perfect ice queen Victoria looking for skunkish old me.”
― Claire Legrand, The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

“I know it's hard," Jovie said gently. "You've probably spent a long time felling like you don't belong, like you weren't a part of the world around you. But that's the drift talking." She motioned to her friends, to the crowded fort with it's warm light. "And this is how we fight it.”
― Kevin Emerson, Drifters

“Jovie suddenly had a strange feeling like she was viewing her life frow above, in it and apart from it at the same time. despite all they had just seen and done, in this universe and beyond, she might just remember this the most. This room these people. it didn't matter what was happening anywhere else, or what had happened before, or even what would come next.
'Just this,' she thought, looking at her three friends. 'Just hold on to this.”
― Kevin Emerson, Drifters

“I think that home is a thousand different things that shift and change and stay the same. It's where you're from and where you're longing for and where you love and where you belong and where you're coming back to and sometimes it's everything and it's everywhere.”
― Katya Balen, Ghostlines

“It is my story and it is our story and it isn't perfect and it isn't finished but it is whole.”
― Katya Balen, October, October