How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and….

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for ….

Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bou….

There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through….

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and t….

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier..

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews..

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost..

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all..

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch..

Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were goo….

It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic i….

War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving..

In his own country, Death can be kind..

I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted..

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb..

At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so….

September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could ….

I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I tak….

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing..

September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that….