71 Quotes by Megan Shepherd

Story ideas are the dreams of our waking minds

Only humans could write such pain and love, could make her swoon one minute and cry the next over something that had never really happened to people who’d never really existed.

Books are the vice of saints

We’ve scrambled for our lives,” she said softly. “Now we have to scramble for our world.

A trip to the library is like coming home and going on an adventure at the same time.

No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness--it al depends on who's telling the story.

Believing in nothing except the truth of Montgomery, who for all his faults was as steady as the sea, as honest as the sun. My eyes watered with unexpected tears, and I kissed him harder, desperately. It wasn't a happy ending.

He was a survivor, like me

What did she know about the Black Forest? Only what she’d been able to glean from the maps in the library and from Luc’s fairy tales: Castles hidden in glens. Trees as tall as city buildings. Wolves and stags and bears. Mad princes who drowned in lakes. None of Mada Vittora’s books described an ancient academy deep in the woods, a place where it always snowed, where girls wanted magic badly enough to die for it.