Amanda Mitchell > Amanda's Quotes

“Clever men died on their own terms. And if they were wary, clever, AND good, they perhaps died in peace.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Every good story needs a villain.
But the best villains are the ones you secretly like.”
― Stephanie Garber, Legendary

“He'd wounded my pride. Now my pride called for blood.”
― Rachel Gillig

“... listening to a very avant-garde soundtrack: the shrill screaming of a toddler.”
― Laura Clery, Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes

“He has looked pain in the eye- and refused to let it make a monster of him.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Kings and monsters can be made, and butterflies can be crushed.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Nothing is free, the trees called after them. Nothing is safe. Magic is love, but also it's hate.”
― Rachel Gillig, Two Twisted Crowns

“Are narcissists like plants? Are there varietals? Do they come in thirty-one toxic flavors? Can we taste a rainbow of egomania? Can you build-a-bear your own unbearable asshole? You tell me!”
― Laura Clery, Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes

“Life is so much more interesting when we're honest about the hard shit.”
― Laura Clery, Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes

“Talking about conflict is so compelling because it's so relatable. It also connects us to each other and to our emotions and makes us feel better about our own lives.”
― Laura Clery, Idiots: Marriage, Motherhood, Milk & Mistakes

“...when truth is not an option, fiction takes on a mind of its own.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Seems to me that love can calm storms, end wars, make fools of smart people, and bridge the gap between life and death. Doesn't that make it the most powerful?”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“...but like carbon is compressed and fired into a diamond, pressure and pain can transform a soul into something terrible.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“I've had a lot of practice at not being bothered when others don't like me, or think I'm odd, or actively try to avoid me, or even just forget I exist. I can't say all that practice helps much.

It still hurts.”
― Abigail Owen, The Games Gods Play

“There is no such thing as a happy place. Because when you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you're sad, everywhere is a sad place.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“I didn't want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”
― Alison Espach, The Wedding People

“He tasted like wax and hexes...”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“People who live in sparkly purple castles didn't threaten to feed guests to dogs.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Unfortunately, this girl, who believed in hope and fairytale and love at first sight, often misinterpreted the bell's chimes. Today the bell was fairly certain that she had heard its cautionary ring. But, from the way her voice affected an excited edge as she spoke to the young man, it seemed as if the young girl had taken the bell's early till as a serendipitous sign instead of a warning.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“The kiss had turned the matriarch from Killer Doll to Doting Grandmother.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“...her hope had been as fragile as a soap bubble...”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“And it struck her how intimate words could be, how they could be spoken only once, for one person, and they would never be heard again, they would disappear like a moment, gone almost as soon as you realized they were there.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“As she neared her destination, the air warmed and sweetened with the scent of mulled wine and poorly timed celebrations.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“... underneath her sugar-sweet exterior lived a heart corroded by jealousy...”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Everything between them felt as fragile as a raindrop that would cease to exist when it touched the ground.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Jack's often told Evangeline that heroes didn't get happy endings, but in that moment, Evangeline wasn't looking for happiness. She wanted a break. A moment of peace before being confronted by another catastrophe.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“...biting is really like kissing but better if you do it right.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Back when she believed that first love and true love and forever love were all the same. She used to think love was like a house. Once it was built, a person got to love in it forever. But now she wondered if love was more like a war with new foes constantly appearing and battles creeping up. Winning at love was less about succeeding in a battle and more about continuing to fight, to choose the person you loved as the one you were willing to die for, over and over.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After