95 Quotes by Amal El-Mohtar

Funny how we always think of knights as fighting dragons, when in fact they work for them.

I am sad because I love you, because I love you so much, and because I am not a bee to buzz with you lightly. I am not a flower, not a tree, not a rain-hewn stone. I am not a storm or a cresting wave, not a thorn or a vine. I am not the sun stinging the water, not the moon on the snow. I am not a star in the dark. I am not the dew-wet wind, not the cloud-stained dawn. I am only a girl, a small, plain girl, a girl who must smear her lips in honey to be found sweet.

Red may be mad, but to die for madness is to die for something.

We rise and our wings are flame. We rise and our food is air. We rise and we are heat and we are light, and we are dark and we are bright, and we lick the windwith our thousand fiery tongues.We rise from the wizard-nation'swreck.

One person may wear different faces in different rooms. Minds swap bodies for sport.

London Next—the same day, month, year, but one strand over—is the kind of London other Londons dream: sepia tinted, skies strung with dirigibles, the viciousness of empire acknowledged only as a rosy backdrop glow redolent of spice and petalled sugar. Mannered as a novel, filthy only where story requires it, all meat pies and monarchy—this is a place Blue loves, and hates herself for loving.

There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

just how layered and complex plain speech could be, how many secrets wrapped in the banner of Sincerity

This feels like being cut off, again, in the strangest way - feels like teetering on the brink of something that will unmake me.