Serena Steele > Serena's Quotes

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Once upon a time...”
― Jacob Grimm

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“And what do you know of love?"
"That it must be a choice."
"Oh, my naive thief. " I pause briefly to meet his gaze. "Love is rarely a choice.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“Even a thief may have honor, and even a jinni may have a heart.”
― Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish

“Are we kindred spirits who understand one another? Two souls cut from the same cloth? Or are we two volatile components that should never be combined?”
― Tessonja Odette, Kiss of the Selkie

“You have to be careful who you meet. You can’t unmeet them.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily

“we are the authors of our own fate.”
― Laura Burton, Queen of Snow: A Snow Queen Retelling

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
― Walt Disney

“but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“But if you don’t want to go with them, you’re going to have to lash yourself to the bed like sailors who lashed themselves to masts to avoid jumping into the sea with Sirens.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“Anyone who offers up their heart on a silver platter deserves what they get.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“You remind me that I am a mere mortal and you are a prince of Faerie. Well, let me remind you that means you have much to lose and I have nothing.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Sharpen your heart.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Above me is the same silvery moon that shines down on you. Looking at it makes me recall the glint of your blade pressed against my throat and other romantic moments.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing