Kristin

“She can't remember laughing at anyone other than a family member before. It feels full, and it feels mean. Both of these sensations are gratifying.”
― Gregory Maguire, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood

“The noise of Blixxen galloping seemed to be shaking the trees, and Niko couldn't help but be reminded of that scene in the classic dinosaur movie where the T. rex was hunting a human, but he tried to banish that particular set of images because it hadn't ended well for the human.”
― Eoin Colfer, Juniper’s Christmas

“Technically, sir, I, Tomescu, did the stopping and the healing. You provided the brute force, and I focused it. You were the mighty river, and I was the dam. You were the pot of thick, gloopy paint, and I was the artist. You were the bucket of manure, and I was the mechanical spreader.”
― Eoin Colfer, Juniper’s Christmas

“So Shell takes to mayhem with talent and a precision so quickly honed as to seem divinely given. If the Unnamed God don't want me to break the latches in that goat pen, why do I get the idea to do it? The goats don't mind. I'm a liberator, Papa.
He never needs to say that, though. The goats go running wild, ruining scores of gardens in an afternoon. No one has seen Shell at the goat paddock. Maybe the gate has just broken open? No, the knife-sliced strips in the bark show ill intent.”
― Gregory Maguire, Elphie: A Wicked Childhood