11 Quotes by Candace Fleming

...One thing I have noticed, child, is that tyrants are the grandest romantics. They can burn a heretic alive once day, and compose a love sonnet the next.

Oh, how I prefer the honest violence of men, who will bash in another man's skull and be done, to the thousand shallow cuts of women's malice.

Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit. ~Laura Hecox

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

The enemy perhaps may challenge my sex for that I am a woman - so may I likewise challenge them, for they are but men.

Neta crawled out of the wreckage, hoping against hope that Amelia wasn’t hurt.She wasn’t. She was standing next to the plane, grinning and powdering her nose. “We have to look nice [if] reporters arrive,” she said.

I dreamed that I was loved. I woke and found it true.

Oh, how I prefer the honest violence of men, who will bash in another man’s skull and be done, to the thousand shallow cuts of women’s malice.

Books taught me how to think.