28 Quotes by Melinda Salisbury

Forgive me again.” He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. “What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz?” he says softly. “Are they gone forever, do you think?

I am not cunning... I’m good at seeing around obstacles is all.

I was robbed, Errin.” He strokes my face with his thumb before turning it back to him. “Of my life. Of my inheritance. Snuffed out at barely twenty-two years old. I have spent five hundred years asleep. I woke to nothing. The legacy my family spent generations building is ash, scattered to the wind. I was promised a kingdom,” he snarls. “I was promised the greatest kingdom the world had ever known. And I will have one. If it means cobbling one together from the ruins of Lormere and Tregellan.

In every fairy tale there is a kernel of truth, and that is the truth of this one. For him, I am poison. I am his death. And I will deliver.

Mysterious boys are not as enjoyable in reality as they are in stories” -Errin.

It’s difficult to grieve for an idea.

I’ve read all of the old stories now – “Red Blood and Dirty Gold”, “The Winter Witch”, “The Scarlet Varulv” – and I want more. Though I want fantasy – made-up, impossible things – I don’t want stories that step out of the pages and into the world around me.

I am the perfect weapon, I can kill with a single touch.

And that, my girl, is the secret. Quake all you must on the inside. But on the outside you must be stone. And you never know; with enough practice it might become the truth.