180 Quotes by G. Willow Wilson

How dense and literal it is. I thought it had a much more sophisticated brain." "Your mother is dense," Alif said wearily. "My mother was an errant crest of sea foam. But that is neither here nor there.

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories.""One could say that of all stories, younger brother.

Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.""How terrible," said Farukhuaz."Do you think so? I find it reassuring. It saves me from having to divine meaning in every sorrow that comes my way.

He's holding my hand! A boy is holding my hand! This is happening! I should let go. I should blush and act shy. Like a girl from the movies. But that's not what I do. I hold on.

It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL

Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states and without contradiction

Whore," he spat at her."If I am a whore for resisting you," she said through her teeth, "what would I have been for giving in?""Whore," he said again.

Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.

I suppose every innovation started out as a fantasy.