79 Quotes by Kelly Link

I think that we want to be led slightly astray when we’re being told a story. Just a little wrong footed.

Her voice is furry and sharp, like a blanket made of needles.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

Part of you is always traveling faster, always traveling ahead. Even when you are moving, it is never fast enough to satisfy that part of you.

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It’s very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Because love isn’t just love. It’s all the other stuff, too.

You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It’s hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren’t quite ready to give up on him yet.