67 Quotes by Meagan Spooner

Who are you to say that being a lady, in itself, is not its own kind of war.

Radical and insurgent and impatient. Those qualities sound more like you, my love.

I’ve heard this sound before, she realized, her entire body tingling. She’d caught glimpses of it, like a distant haunting refrain, in her deepest moments of silence in the wood. When the long days stretched timelessly on, and her mind emptied of thoughts until there was only her footsteps in the snow, only the feel of the bow in her hand, the bite of cold on her cheeks. When everything else faded away, this sound was what was left.

There is something out there, he'd said. Something cunning.

I don't want to be kept safe! I don't want to have someone constantly trying to keep me from tripping on my own incompetence. I want to live in a world where I know the rules, where people are just people. Not one where they keep trying to eat me. That's the reason I left the city in the first place. I don't want to be kept, not by anyone.

I heard her voice, her stories, her softness as she spoke of her family, and her iron as she spoke of me - I heard her scream, and I moved without thought.

I'm improvising, but I've been doing that my whole life.

This isn't some after-school feel-good movie special.

Her thoughts came to life in the stillness of the wood, nurtured by the air and the scent and the vividness of it.