42 Quotes by Malinda Lo

The riders, too, were like nothing she had ever seen before: ethereal men and women with pale visages, their cheekbones so sharply sculpted that she could see their skulls through translucent skin. They surrounded her and looked at her with steely blue eyes, each gaze an arrow staking her to that spot, and she could not close her eyes though the sight of them made her eyes burn as if she were looking at the sun.

Perhaps because philosophers tended to be men and greenwitches tended to be women, the argument took on an overly heated tone.

I would make a poor princess,' she said. 'Why?''Have you ever wished to be a princess?' Ash challenged her. 'That depends,' Kaisa said. 'On what?''On whether I'd have to marry a prince,' she said and her tone was lighthearted, inviting Ash to share her smile.

You shall not discover the truth being being blinded to faith.

Julian was always trying to convince her that E.T. had already visited Earth multiple times. One night in Dolores Park, while they were hanging out on the swings in the playground, Julian told her about meeting an alien abductee in Golden Gate Park the weekend before."He had an implant in his lower back - he totally showed me the scar and everything," Julian said [...]."Yeah, I'm sure that's what he was showing you."[...]"You're just jealous you didn't get to see his ass.

Fairies were drawn to in-between times like Midsummer's Eve, when the full weight of summer begins to tip the shorter days of Autumn; or Souls Night, when the spirits of the newly departed walk the land.

No one is more impressionable than young humans. They are fooled into thinking they can live forever, when in fact they are about to die.

Fear will teach you where to be careful.

Ash felt her entire body move toward her, as if every aspect of her being was reorienting itself to this woman, and they could not be close enough. She.