6 Quotes by Emily Croy Barker

Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem.

No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be.

And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language.

My dear young woman, appearances are the only true reality.

You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don't mean anything, but it's too late because you're reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I'm saying. It's easy to get fooled.

That's the problem with translations," she added sadly. "You can never quite reproduce the flavor of the original.