174 Quotes by Frances Hardinge

It is a very terrible thing to be far smaller than one's rage.

No, not like me. He's no better than the other Fellmottes. Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

She imagined it, a great Bear lost in darkness, friendless and trapped as it had been for so long. It could not understand where it was, or why its body was so strange and weak. All it knew was that it was under attack, just as it had always been...

Before her escort could react, she sprinted out from their little pool of lantern-light into the darkness, her feet pounding the soft, treacherous clods of the field. The guards called after her for a while, but did not pursue, In a lost city, how could they chase down every lost soul who became a little more lost?

My mother is not evil, Faith reminded herself. She is just a perfectly sensible snake, protecting her eggs and making her way in the world as best she can.

Who am I? The shell-selling Lace girl, the attendant of Lady Arilou, Mother Govrie’s other daughter, the thing of dust, the victim, the revenger, the diplomat, the crowd-witch, the killer, the rescuer, the pirate?I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.

Habits, places and faces grew into you over time, like tree roots burrowing into stone work.

Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.

I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose what the world shall be.