29 Quotes by Nick Lake

This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.

Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.

No one is too old for fairy tales.

You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion years, an unbroken line of DNA. You will not be defeated by a ditch.

When guys in black Cadillacs drive you to some random building and lock you in what amounts to a cell, you know that shit just got real.

Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.

I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you can get up again and mend yourself. I promise.

It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes.

I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if you get lost, it's possible that a light will come, dancing, on the horizon, to lead you home.