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Maria Dahvana Headley

Maria Dahvana Headley Books

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Maria Dahvana Headley, born on June 21, 1977, is an accomplished American novelist known for her unique imagination, profound themes, and rich narrative techniques. Her works have gained popularity among readers.

Magonia

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The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

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“There was no way I could live another moment without Aza Ray knowing my name." - Jason Kerwin”

Romantic Namesake

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“My own experiences as a woman tell me it's very possible to be mistaken for monstrous when one is only doing as men do: providing for and defending oneself.”

Women Sexism Monstrosity

Book:Beowulf

Source: Beowulf

“Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?”

Humanity Evil Imperfection

Book:The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes that magic turns to kindness, to salvation, to survival.”

People Humans Kindness Magic Survival Perfection Salvation Imperfection Messiness

Book:A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

Source: A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

“I {} you more than [[[{{{}}}]]].”

Love At First Sight

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Maybe we're brokenhearted, but why isn't it rational to have a broken heart? It is utter shit out there, the things you can't control. The world is full of wrongs, and mess and distress and horror. Who can really be blamed for wanting to dig their way down and live in a hole, or disappear into a cave and never be around humans again? If all people do is hurt each other?”

Human Broken Heart Shitty World

Book:Aerie

Source: Aerie

“You get one wish, the smoke said. And so Yoth wished.”

Fantasy Magic Mythology Wishes Demons Short Stories Genies Black Powder

Book:The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“Like we're here, and at the same time, in outer space. Which of course, we are. We're all untethered, all flying around in the dark, the same as Mars and Venus, the same as the stars.”

Stars Outer Space Untethered

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“I like the sky. It’s rational to me in a way that life isn’t. Looking at it doesn’t suck the way you might think it would, given all the dying-girl-stares-at-heaven possibilities. I don’t think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire”

Life Universe Stars

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Beowulf is usually seen as a masculine text, but I think that's somewhat unfair. The poem, while (with one exception) not structured around the actions of women, does contain extensive portrayals of motherhood and peace-weaving marital compromise, female warriors, and speculation on what it means to lose a son.”

Culture Feminism Gender Grieving Ambiguity Translation Gender Studies Beowulf

Book:Beowulf

Source: Beowulf

“I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.”

Love Universe Jason Magonia Aza

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead.”

Book:Beowulf

Source: Beowulf

“Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "Not to this kind of Beast. Virgins are collaborators.”

Humor Sacrifice Beast Virgin

Book:Unnatural Creatures

Source: Unnatural Creatures

“Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "Not to this kind of Beast. Virgin are collaborators.”

Humor Sacrifice Beast Virgin

Book:Unnatural Creatures

Source: Unnatural Creatures

“I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn’t a dream of flying. It’s a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind. I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.”

Dream Sky Flying Magonia

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.”

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“I think about celestial junk. Like, maybe every planet in this solar system is discarded by giant hands. Each star a crumpled ball of paper, a love letter lit on fire, a smoldering bit of cigarette ash.”

Space Sky Philosophical

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“You hold no horrors for me”

Love Jason Magonia Aza

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“... Whose forbidden hold was this? What had he provoked? He wrapped trembling fingers around the first small, shining thing he found, and fled. For the vault was more than a treasury: piles of preciouses nested beneath the coils of a snoring serpent. It was a bed.”

Poetry Dragons Epic Dragon Translation Hoarding Beowulf

Book:Beowulf

Source: Beowulf

“Like everyone who's ever translated this text, I had some fun.”

Literacy Scholarship English Translation Old English Translating Beowulf

Book:Beowulf

Source: Beowulf

“Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?”

Nerd Magonia Stormshark

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“And there's the loudest sound I've ever heard and the brightest white I've ever seen, and I'm made of it, I'm- I'm made of light I'm made of heat And I'm flying”

Magonia Maria Dahvana Headley

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“I think of the note. I want to say me too. I want to say I know. I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It’s my language too. I want to say that.”

Love Friendship Words Magonia

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“The sound coming out of me is nothing like a cough, nothing even in the same category of a song, but some kind of bird of prey roar, shredding my throat, pulsating my fingers, and Milekt beneath it, singing inside my voice, amplifying me, and making me stronger.”

Magonia Maria Dahvana Headley

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Nothing like trouble to make a day pass faster.”

Truth Trouble Magonia Maria Dahvana Headley

Book:Magonia

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“Sa nu pierzi vremea cat esti in viata, sa-i saruti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i saruti si sa-i iubesti pe oamenii pe care trebuie sa-i iubesti.”

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Am iesit odata afara, sa ma uit la cer - care acum e intunecat, cu o aschie subtire de luna - si nu e nimic cat de cat nerezonabil la el. Este doar el, cerul , si iata, Steaua Nordului. Imi place cerul . Este rational, asa cum viata mea nu e. Nu e naspa sa te uiti la el, cum ai putea sa crezi , [ ... ] . Nu ma gandesc la cer ca la o chestie care are legatura cu vreun rai. Ma gandesc la el ca la o gramada de gaze si ecouri indepartate ale unor chestii care au ars la un moment dat.”

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Stelele sunt asezate astfel incat sa formeze litere. Alfabete celeste. Scrieri care se schimba pe masura ce se mischa pamantul. Daca te uiti asa la cer, ai senzatia ca e un imens poem schimbator , sau poate o schrisoare , care initial a avut un autor, apoi, dupa ce pamantul s-a mischat, un alt autor a completat-o . Asa ca stau si ma uit la cer, pana cand , intr-o zi , voi putea s-o citesc.”

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Stiu ca oamenii mor. Stiu ca atunci cand oamenii mor, cei care raman in urma lor intotdeauna se gandesc ca s-a intamplat ceva nebunesc, fiindca moartea prin natura ei, pare o nebunie . Asta se datoreaza in parte modului in cae omaniii au privit mereu moartea, de parca e ceva oarecum special, de parca fiecare persoana care moare e un erou . Vream sa murim spectaculos, nu doar sa '' pierim '' .”

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“We haven't slept in years. This is an advantage of menopause. Some nights, we meet for coffee at 4:00 a.m.”

Feminism Female Literary Menopause Archetypes Matriarchs

Book:The Mere Wife

Source: The Mere Wife

“Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days, everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Only stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times.”

Beowulf Maria Dahvana Headley

Book:Beowulf

Source: Beowulf

“People make faces of a comfort army. In my head, I'm frantically pi.”

Death Grief Anxiety Pi

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Half of the dead are killed by their friends. Maybe that's the history of everything.”

Death Friendship History Friendly Fire

Book:The Mere Wife

Source: The Mere Wife

“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.”

Science Universe Mysteries Dark Matter

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.”

Inspirational Hurt Strength Broken

Book:Aerie

Source: Aerie

“You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.”

Inspirational Hurt Strength

Book:Aerie

Source: Aerie

“She runs her tongue over her teeth as she walks out the door, and feels an edge, something needing to be filed down before she bites her tongue. Dentist. Manicure. Makeup. Hair salon. She tastes blood, swallows it, pops a mint into her mouth. Small repairs. There's no woman alive who hasn't found the occasional hole in heaven, and carefully, meticulously, covered it back up.”

Heaven Women Details Patchwork Fixes Refinements

Book:The Mere Wife

Source: The Mere Wife

“My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.”

Years Firsts Looks Stills Bigs Situation New York Terrible Mark Wings Spread Hips Tattoo Terrible Things Sailor Jerry Frenzy

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“I just feel like this skin is mine. It's aging every day and the tattoos are aging with me. So, I'm going to be an old piece of paper one day with a lot of work on it.”

Feels Pieces Mines One Day Paper Skins Aging Tattoo

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.”

Writing Littles Body Games Roles Becoming Skins Monsters Covered Manuals Playing Games Role Playing

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.”

Mean Earth Animal Havens Broken Amazing Things

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“I read stuff. Books are not my only friends, but we're friendly. So there.”

Book Stuff Friendly

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“Writing that gets rewritten as the earth moves. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.”

Ifs Way Writing Firsts Looks I Can Earth Moving Written Sky One Day Letters Staring Massive Shifting I Can Read

Book:Magonia

Source: Magonia

“The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.”

Problem Sleep Cities Never Sleep Living In The City

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.”

Has Beens Might Might Have Been

Book:The Year of Yes

Source: The Year of Yes

“Brooke Berman's voice is utterly distinct, and her book, detailing her nomadic artist's journey toward both a successful playwriting career and a home of her own, through 20 years of cramped sublets, high-rise palaces, writer's colonies, and boyfriend's vans, is a hilarious, hopeful, and penetrating must-read.”

Years Book Home Artist Voice Careers Successful Journey Hopeful Vans Palaces Colony Nomadic Playwriting

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

“A hilarious, honest, heartfelt look at what it means to take on a family that isn't your own...Izzy Rose rocks it.”

Looks Mean Rocks Honest Rose Heartfelt

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley

About the Author

Born: June 21, 1977
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 47

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