Maria Wallingford QUOTES

1 " If a lady offers you a kindness, you absolutely have to accept "

― Maria Wallingford , My 12 Months a Troll (The Virgin Paige #1)

2 " I have this dream where words, millions of
them, are on wings around me. Some are
grey and brown. There are some that are
easy to grab and I've soon got a fistful of
those. But some of them glow in shiny,
shiny colours and they pirouette at my out-
stretched fingertips.
I drop the easy ones like litter at my feet. I
climb a chair to get at the glittery stuff.
Then a ladder.
When I've climbed I see the gold one - a
long, long word that's just lovely in the
mouth. I'm soon teetering on a chimney
pot but it goes as I snatch at it. It flies on
purpose a millimetre from my nail tips as I
swat about. Precariously on tiptoes now. Eyes shut,
jumping to grab. My fingers are crammed
with words in
silver colours,
copper
colours, reds like autumn leaves. But I still
bat uselessly towards the gold word, which
flaps higher and higher until I loose my
footing on the chimney and fall, fall into
the stark white of the empty page. "

― Maria Wallingford

3 " Mum tries smiling at herself in the mirror
again and from the lounge I can hear my
dad having a solitary coughing fit. How can
love look so old and tired? How can you be
properly in love if you're thinking about
washing machines and paying the electric-
ity bills? How can I wander among the
great literary lovers, hob nob with Lord
Byron
and share
a
steed
with John
Willoughby, and then suffer the hum drum
when I come down to breakfast? Where
have my fairy tales gone, Muse? I'm so
frightened that this is a world where, when
you kiss your handsome prince, he steps
out of the magic puff of smoke and he's got
socks and sandals on and a dirty t-shirt
with a belly under it. "

― Maria Wallingford