27 Quotes by Penelope Fletcher

No funny business. I’ll scream and dead or not it will hurt your ears

There will be vows. I will put golden rings on your fingers. There will be burned, leavened grain coated in sweet.’ His face contorted. ‘Cake,’ I corrected. ‘Supplicants will give tithes.’ ‘Friends will bring gifts.’ ‘I will buy you new things, trade for old things, and raid for stolen things.’ He paused then said with deep contemplation. ‘I am the blue thing.

I had stood and stared at the webbing of steel then wished for a hole to climb through. The wires had just unraveled without setting off the klaxon. I remembered thinking with a horrible kind of panic that I had somehow done withcraft, and was convinced I was the blackest kind of evil. Then I realized how ridiculous I was being, and figured it was a coincidental gift from the universe, or something.

Being a hero wasn’t slaughtering your enemies. It was the everyday hard choices. It was choosing to do the right thing even if it caused you pain. It was striving to be better than you were the day before.

. . .when a person doesn’t deserve forgiveness is when they need it most.

I would rather grow into love with you. A thing might grow forever. Falling? There is only so far to fall before you reach a painful end.’ Bhyr glanced at his female. ‘Are you hurt? Why do your eyes leak?’ ‘What? No. Shut up.

Go away common sense, you don’t live here anymore, hadn’t you heard?

Don’t talk to strangers? Well, I figure he will always be a stranger unless I speak to him. Where is the logic in such a rule?

Yes, yes,” the Premier interrupted. “You harness the atom. Crudely and without finesse. So far you’ve managed to blow yourselves up.” He paused. “Several times. After you accomplish worldwide peace, deep space travel, stop poisoning your own air, bodies, and repair your ozone, planet 2276549, known to its native inhabitants as Earth will be considered for membership.