112 Quotes by Maria Dahvana Headley

People, alas, don’t document things with any kind of precision. They fill Twitter with blurry photos.

I thumb. There’s a flying alien witch. Awesome.

The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn’t get excited about anything other than their own discontent.

Some days I’m just sixteen, and sixteen isn’t what I want to be.

We all know a boy can’t daddy until his daddy’s dead.

You’ve never seen surprise until you’ve looked into the eyes of an ascending bovine.

I think about curses and pirates. Skeletons guarding booby-trapped hideaways.

Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There’s a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere.

Even people who’ve never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.