Penny > Penny's Quotes

“I don't want bright and happy,” he whispered roughly. “I want real.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I'll be grateful for every second that I can say that I belong to you, Saeris Fane. Eighty years or eighteen hours. It doesn't matter to me. It'll still be the highest honor of my life.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Don’t call her Sunshine,” he commanded. “Why not?” If Carrion’s plan was to poke the bear, then he sure as hell knew how to go about it. But Kingfisher didn’t respond to the taunting note in his question. He just cocked his head a little, nostrils flaring, and spoke in a low rumble. “Because she is moonlight. The mist that shrouds the mountains. The bite of electricity in the air before a storm. The smoke that rolls across a battlefield before the killing starts. You have no idea what she is. What she could be. You should call her Majesty.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I’ll be grateful for every second that I can say I belong to you, Saeris Fane.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Urgh! Do you have to be so difficult?”
His eyes danced. “It isn’t mandatory, but I do enjoy it.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“She has a mind and a mouth of her own. I am the keeper of neither.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Never forget… Monsters thrive best in the dark.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“For those who live their nightmares,
so that others may have their dreams.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Rumors are next-door neighbors to gossip, and gossip always breaks bread with lies. It's just the way these things go.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“He would claim my better days and carry me during my worst.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“I sobbed. The name he gave me, the name I hated, was a declaration of what I meant to him even then.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“Always pay attention to the fine print. The devil's in the details. Now go.”
― Callie Hart, Quicksilver

“He was not his father. He'd thought he walked a narrow line, at any moment ready to tip into likeness. But the line wasn't narrow after all. It was a great, uncrossable chasm.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Sometimes he is benign, sometimes stern, almost maleficent. A word so close to magnificent, she thinks, sent off-course by maleness.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Cora wants to say it matters because sometimes big men feel small inside.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“And Cora realizes her daughter has learned what to do. How to soothe, to placate. That just through watching, the first time she’s stepped into this role, she is already accomplished. If it doesn’t stop, Cora thinks, this pattern will repeat unendingly, the destiny of each generation set on the same course.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“There was a subtle power in bowing out.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Mehri has always treated parenting like she’s cooking a big warming pan of something: a pinch of that, a pinch of this, she’s sure it will turn out fine in the end. Cora’s own approach has always felt more like baking a cake: carefully measuring out ingredients and trying not to ruin everything. She admires Mehri’s way.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“There’s something about that—when the quietest person, most reserved in their opinions, most reluctant to impose their thoughts on others, finally speaks; you hear. Oh. Oh, and you’re suddenly face to face with the truth.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“And which would be better? To have those days boiled down into one intense burst of color, or to have the pin removed from the thorax every now and then, dusty wings fluttering back to life, a little more time eked out before being locked away again?”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“Because sometimes their need to please previous generations is greater than their need to love future ones.”
― Florence Knapp, The Names

“You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“When you do the right thing for the wrong reason, no one praises you. When you do the wrong thing for the right reason, everyone does, even though what is right and wrong depends entirely on the story you’re living in. And no one says they need recognition or praise or love, but we all hunger for it. We all want to be special.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“If you only ever look up at something, can you ever see it clearly?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“Fear not, Bartholomew! Every day has its dog.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“I confess horses are not the intelligent beasts I imagined them to be. Though I don’t think that merits the abuse they suffer postmortem.” That one took me a moment. “No one actually beats dead horses, gargoyle. It’s an expression.” “Really? How morbid.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“People who love you for your usefulness don't love you at all.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“It sounds awful when I say it out loud.” “True things often do.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“Just as well. Sometimes, Bartholomew, I think her quite the bitch.”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth

“How undignified.” The gargoyle let out a whimper. “Did anyone see me fall?”
― Rachel Gillig, The Knight and the Moth