Fairy Tale Retelling Quotes

“I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife?”
― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Because this caring for someone is not what I thought it would be. It's not losing who I am. It's finding my soul interwoven with another - and chasing the stars together.
And that might just be the greatest adventure of them all.”
― Kara Swanson, Dust

“Trust me.”
A dangerous request. Trusting Red usually resulted in a near-death experience.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Iron

“They said you’d make it. I agreed. You’re too annoying to die.”
― Madisyn Carlin, A Silent Hope

“If He could weave the tapestry of time, if He could predetermine each person’s path, He could hold her safe and fast in the storm.

Tears burned Zinnia’s eyes. In the breaking, in the pain, in the questions, He never left her.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Reaction

“Do you need me to carry you?”

“I’d rather make an angry badger’s acquaintance.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Resistance

“Thief, caring friend, purloiner of treats—what’s the difference?”

“According to my vocabulary knowledge—which, apparently, is far superior to yours—there’s quite a bit of difference.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Arrow

“Well. I never thought the day would come where we both agree on something.”

“Don’t get used to it.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Arrow

“She cold dance with butterflies all she liked. That wouldn't stop him from clipping her wings if that's what it took to see justice done.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart

“The road had not been easy, and pain and thorns littered the path she trod, but during the entire tear-filled journey, He had not forsaken her.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Arrow

“Balderdash. Pure malarkey. Detective, don’t listen to one word of that folderol—that nasty attempt to besmirch my exceptional culinary skills.”

“Your culinary skills are exceptional at killing vultures—and everyone who eats your cooking.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Arrow

“Keep your sword close and your friends closer.”
― Kiley Kellermeyer, Damselle in Distress

“The darkness had come to claim her at last and she gave into it willingly. Her beast would keep her safe.”
― Jennifer Silverwood, Craving Beauty

“The blue fairy godmother opened the door, and asked her if she'd had a good time, and she said Yes, and No, and It was very interesting to see all the fancy clothes and the fancy plates with fancy cakes and the fancy mirrors and the fancy lights. And then she said, It was even more interesting to see lizards become footwomen and mice become horses.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Cinderella Liberator

“The magical library was a book worm's candy store--filled to the brim with delicious books.”
― Carla Reighard, Bellarose

“Death simply is. It steals your breath and leaves you for another, giving you not a second thought. Like an absent father, like an emotionless lover, Death does not discriminate its victims, neither loving nor hating. And yet those left alive remain, never quite finding the lost pieces of their souls that Death casually snags along the way.”
― Deidre Huesmann, The Witchling and the Huntswoman

“You don't have to earn your place here, Penelope," he'd said. "This is your home now. You're one of us, and we take care of our own.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart

“In all the daydreams she'd woven about her and Titus sharing intimate conversations, never once did they entail discussing corset burglary.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart

“He’d faced down the vilest souls in the world and had fought those who desired his death, but at that moment, the flurry of white feathers and aggravated squawks was the scariest thing he’d ever encountered.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Shattered Reaction

“I see. You’re that type.”

“Just what type is that?”

"The humorless type. I hear it’s an incurable affliction.”
― Madisyn Carlin, Arrow

“Put me down or I’ll stab your leg.”

“First, don’t threaten someone saving your life. Makes me less inclined to help. Second, do you really think you, a Leorin, can intimidate me? You’re like a gnat, cub. A very annoying, hairbrained, numbskulled gnat.”
― Madisyn Carlin, A Silent Hope

“When the Lilliputian family of the Pequenos migrated to Gulliver’s land of the Man Mountains, they expected to encounter many strange issues while settling in. What Mrs Pequenos didn’t anticipate was her daughter’s announcement that she was in love with a Man Mountain boy and was going to get married.”
― Mads Sukalikar, Do Virgins Taste Better? And Other Tales of Whimsy

“He wiped sweat from his brow before the moisture dripped into his eyes and sighed. "I should have listened to my mother and become a hermit.”
― E.D. Walker, The Beauty's Beast

“It wasn't just a room, it was a library filled to the brim with books--volume upon delicious volume of delight.”
― Carla Reighard, Bellarose III

“Fayola wore nothing underneath. Nothing but skin in need of his touch. Hands, mouth and more. "Six months," she said, her voice a sultry whisper of repressed need.”
― N.D. Jones, Bearly Gold: A Goldilocks and the Three Bears Reimagining

“She could dance with butterflies all she liked. That wouldn't stop him from clipping her wings if that's what it took to see justice done.”
― Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart

“You call my kind Otherworldly, but as the daughter of the King, you live in a world that is out of reach even of your fellow humans.
You, Princess, are as otherworldly as they come.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories: Four Fairy Tale Retellings

“You can't just break a Bellheather curse with a kiss.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories: Four Fairy Tale Retellings

“It isn't every day a Beauty begs me to show mercy to our Beast.”
― Jacqueline E. Smith, Solstice Stories: Four Fairy Tale Retellings