56 Quotes by Sarah Beth Durst

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

I would have lied to you until we died. Sometimes honesty is cruelty, and love is lies.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.""And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

You do not say no to the girl with the deities.

Take my day, take my night, take my sunrise, take my life.

There's only one way in and one way out of this world.

Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you.Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you.Don't trust the water, for it will drown you.Don't trust the air, for it will choke you.Don't trust the earth, for it will bury you.Don't trust the trees, for they will rip you,rend you, tear you, kill you dead.

The middle son gets a magic donkey. When you shout the word: "Bricklebrit!", it spews gold pieces out of...And I quote:... its front and back.Yes, folks. Thing I Love #4: the Bricklebrit Donkey. You shout a word, and gold comes flying out its butt. Fairy tales don't get much better than that.

[Zach] placed his hands on her shoulders so she'd look directly into his eyes. "You know, the moment I saw you, I said to myself -- because all the great people talk to themselves, of course -- I said, 'Zach, you have to meet that lovely lady, because she will make your life extraordinary.' I was not wrong.