Kate felt very offended. 'I am not an elf,' she insisted. 'I'm an Englishwoman!

- Clare B. Dunkle

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay.

- Clare B. Dunkle

Em, I am trying to have an important conversation!" shouted Seylin. "I will not change into a cat!

- Clare B. Dunkle

That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what…

- Clare B. Dunkle

I had no fear of the stream's perils, and I listened with the greatest contentment to the quiet slap of water on rocks, the running whisper of the cu…

- Clare B. Dunkle

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people …

- Clare B. Dunkle

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.

- Clare B. Dunkle

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

- Clare B. Dunkle

Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!

- Clare B. Dunkle