Rachel > Rachel's Quotes

“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.”
― Catherynne Valente The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Jess had never imagined that someone would be so empty that they’d need to destroy something that precious to feel full.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“It is nice to be nice," said Kamala with a sage nod. "And it is also nice to eat people.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Star-Touched Queen

“Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.”
― Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

“Don't bring your morality around me. Morals is for people who's already got food.”
― Adam Gidwitz, The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

“...People don't necessarily like to be experimented on. Not even by fiction.”
― Theodora Goss

“Once Upon a time,' the stories would begin ... no particular time, fictional time, fairy-story time. This is a doorway; if you are lucky, you go through it as a child, aurally, before you can read, and if you are very lucky, you become a free citizen of an ancient republic and can come and go as you please.”
― Sara Maitland, Gossip from the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of Our Fairytales

“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
― Mary Oliver

“If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.”
― Michael Sims, Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination