79 Quotes by Kelly Link

"A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It’s a stage all girls go through. If you’re lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else."

"Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There’s no such thing as a normal childhood. What’s useful in writing weird fiction is learning how to understand and articulate those moments of personal, particular strangeness."

"How many witches are there in the world? Have you ever seen one? Would you know a witch if you saw one? And what would you do if you saw one? For that matter, do you know a cat when you see one? Are you sure?"

"Everyone who is alive has a ghost inside them, don’t they?"

"Not that, when you come down to it, we do a hell of a lot of shining. At best we give off just enough light to hold away the dark for an hour or two. That’s all the fire Prometheus had to give us."

"I don’t think I’m cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch."

"Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire."

"Becka was almost good looking enough to be on a reality dating show, but not funny looking or sad enough to be on one of the makeover shows."

"Happiness! Misery! If you were one, bet on it the other was on the way."

"When I’m up for an award, there are usually two or three other things on the ballot that I like better than my own fiction."