Erin Bow QUOTES

1 " No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better. "

― Erin Bow

2 " Your shadow is bought and paid for, and your death will not remit that payment. You can go shadowless into the shadowless world, and your death will only be one last dark thing on my long dark road. It will hurt me but I do not care. It is all but over. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

3 " Kate faced the crowd. They were just eyes and teeth to her, just spit and voices. It was a moment, even, before they became people: a man with one blind eye, another whose neck was thick with lumps and weeping wounds of scrofula. The poorest of the market.
At Kate's feet, Drina. Her scarf and shirt were torn open. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

4 " No, blowing up cities doesn't work, not in the long term. You've got to find something that the people in charge aren't willing to give up. A price they aren't willing to pay.

Which leads us to Talis's first rule for stopping wars: make it personal. "

― Erin Bow , The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace, #1)

5 " Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

6 " Taggle was absorbed in the meat pie. ‘It’s covered in BREAD,’ he huffed. ‘What fool has covered MEAT with BREAD? "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

7 " They hurried when they could, and dozed when they had to, hiding in tangles of bloodtwig and heartsease at the edge of the road. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

8 " The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle, but she pushed on as fast as she could. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

9 " It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus. "

― Erin Bow

10 " Be brave. Things will find their shape. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

11 " At night the fog was thick and full of light, and sometimes voices. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

12 " And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered.
Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

13 " Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows me” into “I’ve got a secret identity.” It turns “I don’t understand why other people act the way they do” into “I’m trapped in a faerie realm.” It turns “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell” into “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.”

There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they are hard for everyone. We like to see these things retold, but with dragons. "

― Erin Bow

14 " She was dry. She was lying on something soft. She was wrapped in quilts. There was a star of light drifting above her, and a smell like a herb garden. Taggle was a long warmth stretched out at one side, his chin in her hand, his tail curled over her neck. She thought they might be in heaven.
Taggle farted.
Plain Kate coughed and sneezed. And then she really was awake. "

― Erin Bow

15 " I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses. "

― Erin Bow , The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace, #1)

16 " You made tools of us. Have you never considered: the thing of a tool is that anyone may use it. "

― Erin Bow , The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace, #1)

17 " They're gone. I let them chase me. I led them like a sunbeam and vanished like a shadow. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

18 " I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all. "

― Erin Bow , The Scorpion Rules (Prisoners of Peace, #1)

19 " Plain Kate greased her boots and bandaged her feet, and soon she would walk like a Roamer born. She helped Drina with the water and the wood, and in the long, wet evenings she carved objarka burji.
Plain Kate carved fast and learned slowly. She was bewildered most of the time, but Daj called her mira again, and when she asked Drina what it meant, the girl replied, "It means she likes you. It means your family."
Family.
It could have kept her walking for a hundred miles. And she did walk far. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

20 " Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. "You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours.
"The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful," he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. "We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing."
"I will never give it up," she answered. "

― Erin Bow , Plain Kate

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