7 Quotes by Liesl Shurtliff

Names are powerful and so is destiny, but a person's will is more powerful than both put together.

Martha spouted off a long message to the gnome, including all the details of my injuries, precisely where I was, and who Martha was and her son Helmut. When she asked the gnome to repeat the message, he got it all mixed up, and so she did it again and made it longer, but he still got it all mixed up, and so they went back and forth, and finally Martha lost patience and threw him out the window. The gnome scurried away chanting, “Red for message! Red for message!

Rhymes make me feel better when I'm down...When you say the words and the sounds match, it feels like everything in the world is in its place and whatever you say is powerful and true.

What's that?""He just fell from that tower!""Is he dead?""He's alive, I think."Someone bent over me. "Are you alive?""I'm alive," I said breathlessly, "and I'm going to have a baby.""What did he just say?""Something about a baby.""A baby." I said, and then I blacked out.

I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice.

I woke with my name singing in my ears. It was a beautiful sound, music unlike any in the world. It made me wish that everything could have such a name. Not just people, but animals and villages, and roads and kingdoms, even mountains.

Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself.