“It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her.
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.”
Source: Radiance
“When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.”
Source: Deathless
“Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?”
Source: Radiance
“I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.”
Source: Radiance
“We all hit rock bottom; sometimes, you bounce up fast, sometimes you crawl until you can straighten up and sometimes you have to lay there for a long time until you learn how to rise again.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“The Wild Heart wants promises of forever. The Peaceful Soul just wants harmony in the present.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“Peace is love in its most graceful state.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“Love wins every, single, time when we join hands and fight for it just like it fights for us. Even islands are connected by water. Nature knows that without connection, there is no love and without love, there is no survival.”
Source: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul: Poems and Inspiration to Live and Love Harmoniously
“It's not square to say a prayer.”
Source: Destiny's Gate
“History is repeating. But it doesn’t have to go the same way as last time. While learning from the past and changing shape… history will keep on going – toward the hope of tomorrow.”
Source: Star Wars Rebels, Vol. 3