Nancy Nickeson

“Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.” “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“If you eat the apple, in certain respects you'll resemble God. You will no longer be innocent: you'll know good and you'll know evil, and be able to choose between them. You'll be responsible for your actions. And you'll be free to choose the course of your lives. .... You and all people, for all time.”
― Elsie V. Aidinoff

“I keep forgetting that you're not as empty headed as most princesses.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing with Dragons

“Red will be made white
Darkness shall become light
Faith will be made sight
Squire shall become knight”
― Bryan Davis