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Meagan Spooner QUOTES

Meagan Spooner QUOTES

1 " Writer's block' is just a fancy way of saying 'I don't feel like doing any work today. "

― Meagan Spooner

2 " I heard her voice, her stories, her softness as she spoke of her family, and her iron as she spoke of me - I heard her scream, and I moved without thought. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

3 " She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such stories that we wake in the night, dreaming dreams of a life long past. she reminds us of what we used to be.

She reminds us of what we could be. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

4 " None of this was what held Yeva's gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

5 " I would have kept you safe,' he said.
I closed my eyes, forcing the tears down my cheek to break against the dam of his fingers.
'I know. "

― Meagan Spooner

6 " Fire cannot hurt us. And yet, when we light her a lantern, there is a moment as we watch the wick flare in the darkness-a moment in which I want to touch the flame. Just to see if I can still be burned. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

7 " She remembered perching on the sill of her bedroom window with the pane opened a crack so she could let the winter in, and she remembered letting it sting her nose and wash over her until she was shivering and blue. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

8 " Yeva decided to explore. A part of her shrank from the idea, uncertain what horrors she might uncover in a castle prowled by a cursed Beast. But the rest of her thrilled to the thought. curiosity settling in and overwhelming her fear. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

9 " We thought too much.
Because while hatred is a fire only man feels, he does not hate the beast that comes in the night. Mankind fears it, fights it, drives it off, but he does not hate it. No one hates the bear, he wolf. They don't hate the wind or the snow. They don't hate the death.
They hate each other. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

10 " Because the law will never be just. Perhaps it can come close— so close the line is hard to see. But laws are written by men, who are imperfect by nature, and justice belongs to something beyond the power of men. "

― Meagan Spooner , Sherwood

11 " There is something out there, he'd said. Something cunning. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

12 " How do you know this story?"
Yeva's breath caught. "Because it's my story too," she whispered. "Because I thought I wouldn't be happy until I left town to live in the wood, and then I thought I wouldn't be happy until I could hunt every day, and then I thought I wouldn't be happy until I avenged my father's death. Because I spent a year in an old castle with the young prince and the gray wolf and I thought I couldn't be happy until I killed them both, and when I did, I wept harder than I ever have in my life. Because I thought I couldn't be happy until I went home, and then I thought I couldn't be happy until I came back."
"Because I thought the reason I'd always felt so restless was because I was meant for magic," Yeva said softly. "That if I could fix the story, that if I rescued the young prince and the gray wolf and I found the Firebird and I held in my hands everything I'd ever wanted, I would live happily ever after. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

13 " How do you know this story?"
Yeva's breath caught. "Because it's my story too," she whispered.
"Because I thought the reason I'd always felt so restless was because I was meant for magic," Yeva said softly. "That if I could fix the story, that if I rescued the young prince and the gray wolf and I found the Firebird and I held in my hands everything I'd ever wanted, I would live happily ever after. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

14 " She wept because she did not know what she wanted, and because she wanted everything. "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

15 " Speaking of wishes, who wished for a man who would love her for her skill? "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted

16 " Such a deadly thing, a feather. "

― Meagan Spooner , Sherwood

17 " But arrows are winged creatures. "

― Meagan Spooner , Sherwood

18 " Surrender. An archer tries to master his bow, to force the arrow where he wants it to go. He tries with strength and focus and discipline to master it. He uses tougher gloves and stronger bowstrings and stiffer limbs, and restraint. But arrows are winged creatures, and will not be restrained. To shoot like that, one must surrender control. "

― Meagan Spooner , Sherwood

19 " Radical and insurgent and impatient. Those qualities sound more like you, my love. "

― Meagan Spooner , Sherwood

20 " To the girl
who reads by flashlight
who sees dragons in the clouds
who feels most alive in worlds that never were
who knows magic is real
who dreams

This is for you "

― Meagan Spooner , Hunted