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Quotes About Legend

That is your legend?" Akiva asked, incredulous. Madrigal had told him the story of the sun and Ellai while they flew. "That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?
~ Laini Taylor
In the legends, chimaera were sprung from tears and seraphim from blood, but in this moment they are, all of them, children of regret.
~ Laini Taylor
You were kinder to yourselves in your legend than we were," Karou continued. "We made ourselves out of grief. You made yourselves in your gods' image, and with a noble purpose: to bring light to the worlds." "A black job we've done of it," he said.
~ Laini Taylor
Few will ever witness an act destined to become legend. How does it happen, that the events of a day, or a night — or a life — are translated into story? There is a gap in between, where awe has carved a space that words have yet to fill.
~ Laini Taylor
And the space where his legend was gathering up words grew larger. Because this story was not over yet.
~ Laini Taylor
En las leyendas, las quimeras nacían de las lágrimas y los serafines de la sangre, pero en este momento todos ellos son hijos de la tristeza.
~ Laini Taylor
I legenderna föddes kimärer ur tårar och serafer ur blod, men i denna stund är de alla sorgens barn (s. 301).
~ Laini Taylor
A fost odata ca niciodata un incer care zacea pe moarte in ceata. Si un diavol s-a aplecat spe el si i-a zambit.
~ Laini Taylor
Theirs wasn't the only love story ended by the gods, but it was the only one that ended the gods.
~ Laini Taylor
Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much...
~ Cassandra Clare
Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.
~ Cassandra Clare
Thomas had very nice shoulders. Legendary shoulders, in fact.
~ Cassandra Clare
Underground, the stars are legend.
~ Catherine Fisher
According to Montagne legend, the mountain has forever been the abode of giants. Long ago a traveling pair of sorcerers, husband and wife, scaled the cliff into the valley, and the woman cured the giants' chilblains with ointments and the gift of fire. In gratitude, the giants built Chateau de Montagne out of the living rock of Ancienne, and from that castle the couple founded the kingdom of Montagne, using their magic to shield the country and its people from harm.
~ Catherine Gilbert Murdock
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I'm just food for a superhero. He'll eat up my death and get the energy he needs to become a legend.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back. Old
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The Heart of Fairyland is a story
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Richards double-century
~ Gideon Haigh
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton