Nancy Quotes

“I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.”
― Nancy Springer

“Again time elapsed.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.”
― Frank Miller, Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For

“P...U...D...D...I...N...G"
"Pudding," said Roger. "They've kept some for us."
"She hasn't finished the word," said Dick.
Titty was reading steadily on. "H...E...A...D...S...End of word”
― Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post

“I just want to go home," whispered Nancy.
"Silly ghost. That's all any of us want. That's why we're here," said Sumi.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“I don’t know what it is", answered the girl, "I only know that it is so, and not with me alone, but with hundreds of others as bad and wretched as myself. I must go back. Whether it is God’s wrath for the wrong I have done, I do not know, but I am drawn back to him through every suffering and ill usage; and I should be, I believe, if I knew that I was to die by his hand at last.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“No art is worth endangering your health and well-being.”
― Olivia Jaimes, Nancy: A Comic Collection

“She get a name now, not a title and surname, thought Nancy. That's not right. The dead deserve more dignity, not less. Dignity is all the dead possess.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“Together they walked across the property, the girl, the boy, and the dancing skeleton wrapped in rainbows. Neither of those who still possessed tissue and tongue spoke. This was the closest thing Loriel would have to a funeral; it would have been inappropriate to make light of it.”
― Seanan McGuire

“She gets a name now, not a title and surname, thought Nancy. That's not right. The dead deserve more dignity, not less. Dignity is all the dead possess.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway