174 Quotes by Frances Hardinge

What made a girl a damsel in distress? Were they not allowed claws? Mosca had a hunch that if all damsels had claws, they would spend a lot less time in distress.

You will find out who you are when your choices test you. In the end, we are what we do and what we allow to be done.

You don't have to stay if you don't want to,' said the girl called Makepeace. 'But you're welcome to travel with us as long as you like. We believe in second chances, for the people who don't usually get them. 'You're among friends, Hannah, You're home.

A tree can grow two hundred years, and look like it’ll last a thousand more - but when lightning strikes at last, it burns.

It was such a simple thing, but it made Bear feel less trapped. This was his cool, green territory, a domain of damp scents and mysteries. Every time, Makepeace felt her eyes sharpen , until she could see in the dim light as clearly as full day. Today she dug the turf with her fingers, rubbed against a tree and snuffed at the dandelion clocks, breaking them with her nose. She was a little too slow to stop Bear licking a fat beetle off her wrist and eating it.

Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.

Самоуважението ѝ бе пострадало при челен сблъсък с любовта - катастрофа, която като цяло свършва само по един начин. Любовта не играе честно. В този миг гордостта ѝ, твърдата увереност в правотата, та дори и усещането ѝ за себестойност не означаваха нищо пред лицето на перспективата да остане лишена от обич.

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

Humans living and dead might suddenly turn on you, but wild things just lived on in their brute, wild way, caring nothing for you. When they died, they left no ghosts.