56 Quotes by Sarah Beth Durst

I’d like to thank all the pizza and chocolate I consumed during the writing of this novel. This book wouldn’t exist without you. In particular, I’d like to call out a slice of balsamic tomato from Luigi’s Pizzeria for being my muse.

I know you've been here on your own for a long time, but I'm here now-""And that means I could lose you again.

Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked.There was always a broken doll.Why did there always have to be a damn doll?

Only Uncle Pascha ignored her. He was contemplating his chessboard. She doubted that he'd move his piece today. It had been his turn for only six months. Once, he had gone three years between moves. He preferred a leisurely game.

I'm allowed to have new dreams.

Whether he loved her or not didn't change how she felt about him. She loved him independent and regardless of whether he loved her.

She had a hundred reasons: because Bear had carved a statue of her in the center of the topiary garden, because she could always make him laugh, because he'd let her return to the station, because he won at chess and lost at hockey, because he ran as fast as he could to polar bear births, because he had seal breath even as a human, because his hands were soft, because he was her Bear. "Because i want my husband back," Cassie said.

The beanstalk felt like sandpaper".

Good luck. Be safe. And if you can't be safe... be yourself.