15 Quotes by Foz Meadows

It's a hat," said Jess.Manx stretched. "Yes.""A hat with - just to be clear - a lizard on it. A real, dead lizard.""An iguana, yea. It's been stuffed.""I can see that. Any idiot can see that, but it doesn;t address the issue.""The issue being?""Manx, you're wearing a goddamn reptile! On your head! With pride! It's like you're the lovechild of Carmen Miranda and a taxidermist!

True, life is complex. But so are a great many accidents.

Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people.

The ground keeps changing."He gave her arm a gentle pinch. "Do you still think this is a dream?""All dreams change," said Saffron. "That's how you know they're dreams.""So does reality," he replied. "That's how you know it's real.

I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me

You want to know what human sentience is? It’s the only thing in the universe capable of doubting its own existence.

Ariel's cure is a nostrum that tastes of moss and sunsets, scratching my throat like swallowed earth. It sits in the core of me like ice, a steady coolth radiating outwards, soothing my fever; soothing me. I stare up at the painted angels overhead and wonder how unlike them I must be, that I can leave my father and husband to think me dead.

My island was not wild, compared to this. There are such monsters in a palace.

Sometimes the gravest things must, of necessity, become the most comic.