174 Quotes by Frances Hardinge

C'era una vera e propria fame in lei, e alle ragazze non si cnfaceva essere fameliche. Le ragazze dovevano sbocconcellare con parsimonia a tavola. e le loro menti dovevano accontentarsi di una dieta morigerata. Ma tutto questo a lei non bastava. Tutta la conoscenza - ogni genere di conoscenza - attirava Faith, e c'era un piacere delizioso, pernicioso, nel carpirla senza essere scoperta.

Lord Fellmotte was not a man. He was an ancient committee. A parliament of deathly rooks in a dying tree.

The female mind is a different thing altogether,” he added quickly, “and quite delightful in its own right! But too much intellect would spoil and flatten it, like a rock in a soufflé.

One little superstition of mine I hope you will indulge. I never meet with perfect strangers in desolate bastle houses or alarmingly named alleyways at twilight. This trifling quirk I developed shortly after acquiring a large number of enemies.

The Childersins were armed with swords and daggers. The Cartographers were armed with nothing but surprise, but really quite a lot of surprise.

True stories seldom have endings.I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

Makepeace felt something in her chest wrench, and wondered if it was her heart breaking. She waited to see how that would feel. Perhaps hearts broke like eggs, and spilt, and stopped working. But all she felt was numb. 'Perhaps my heart already broke and never grew back.

Worlds ended sometimes.

Bear, I need your eyes. I need your nose. I need your night-wits and forest-wisdom.