Quotes from Sarah Beth Durst

Glaring at the unicorn silhouette, she decided she hated coincidences. Or cosmic signs. Whichever it was. She felt as if the universe were laughing at her.

I am myself in spite of my memories." -Aunt Nicki

She was our friend and our enemy, Chancellor Xanon," Naelin said. "We will mourn our friend who was killed by our enemy. Surely you understand that a life is more complex than a label. We can love who she was while we hate what she's done.

Her kind was supposed to be irresistibly alluring to humans. She was the humanoid equivalent of a Venus flytrap.

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

It seems the more we try to fix the world, the more we break it.

I am not a THAT. I am a pegasus, direct descendant of Poseidon and foaled by the Gorgon Medusa during the moment in which Perseus decapitated her--which, by the way, was rude. YOU, on the other hand, are descended from dirt." "Monkeys, actually. And YOU were designed by a toy company.

promise the dragon won't eat me."The dragon spoke. "I wouldn't dream of it, little Key. You are not flavored to my liking." "Somehow I don't feel reassured," she said.

She was beginning to understand why so few people even tried monster racing. Constant terror is a bit of a distraction

Your need to kill me is not greater than my need to use you," Tamra informed the kehok.

I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They're ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.

Point is, I invented me... maybe as a reaction to them... definitely as a reaction to them. I am myself in spite of my memories.

You needed a fire inside you, the kind that kept you passionately invested in the here and now, the kind that made you want to shape what was happening rather than letting it shape you.

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

I loved him. And he thought that meant that he had no responsibilities.

Know me," Ven said as he drove knife after knife into the spirit's body, "for I am death to all oathbreakers, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, silence to your shout, stillness to your speed. I hunt death.

We can't have a conversation." "I'm being quiet." "Yeah, but I'm sitting alone. This looks weird." "Then don't talk. I'll do a monologue. 'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks--

The only fearless people I've met were frightfully stupid.

It's not arrogant to know who you are. It's powerful. And I am powerful.

If he wasn't more careful, he could be caught by evil people with world-domination plans and forced to commit atrocious acts of atrocity.

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?

Do you trust me?' 'I know you want me to say, with my life. But in the interest of complete honesty, I'm going to have to go with sometimes.

The beanstalk felt like sandpaper".

One day, I'm certain a meteor will crash through the atmosphere and land on my apartment... Or maybe, as Mom says, it's only that I am a little bit disorganized and a little bit paranoid. To which I remind her, it's not paranoia if the meteors really are out to get you.