31 Quotes by Nancy Springer

The only way for me to be safe and free was to be – be what my name decreed me. Enola. Alone.

We bastards are not to blame for any of it.

For Ellid born of Eitha had a face like a flower for loveliness and a body like a doe for grace; her mind was steadfast as a sword and her spirit was bright as its skylit blade. Cuin.

Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior.

Fathers – half of anyone’s life seemed to be about who fathered them.

Grinning with delight even as my heart ached – a familiar bittersweet feeling, that of enjoying affection from afar – I watched until they all went inside, the cab and the barouche drove away, and it became apparent that the moment of drama was over.

Chance Duv knows!” She spoke lightly. “Folk have always told me that the night is full of all manner of evil.” “Ay, even so,” Bevan said heavily, “but it is the same evil that is in the day – evil of men. Look there!

He was just a sixteen-year old boy who had been killed, a kid whose photo had been in the paper, a kid who would mostly be forgotten by the time the newspaper went into the garbage-yet he was the universe, all the dying, all the crying. He was everyone who had ever died young.

In the blue sky overhead, larks sang like my heart.