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Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin QUOTES

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin QUOTES

1 " Maybe destiny isn't something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

2 " What's that?"
"He just fell from that tower!"
"Is he dead?"
"He's alive, I think."
Someone bent over me. "Are you alive?"
"I'm alive," I said breathlessly, "and I'm going to have a baby."
"What did he just say?"
"Something about a baby."
"A baby." I said, and then I blacked out. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

3 " Life would be awfully grim and glum if I couldn't laugh at myself. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

4 " They say that a minute is a minute no matter where you are or what you're doing, but my brain could never grasp that. I think time is a trickster. When I have a lot to do, time shrinks, but when I want something over with, it stretches and yawns, and laughs at my torture. Sometimes the minutes hold hours inside of them. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

5 " And that's its own kind of magic - to feel that people who are gone are still here. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

6 " Home is a place to get out of the rain
It cradles the hurt and mends the pain
And no one cares about your name
Or the height of your head
Or the size of your brain "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

7 " I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

8 " Simple needs make a simple life. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

9 " A name is a powerful thing. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

10 " It's difficult to tell how much time is really passing when you're hungry and bored. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

11 " Martha spouted off a long message to the gnome, including all the details of my injuries, precisely where I was, and who Martha was and her son Helmut. When she asked the gnome to repeat the message, he got it all mixed up, and so she did it again and made it longer, but he still got it all mixed up, and so they went back and forth, and finally Martha lost patience and threw him out the window. The gnome scurried away chanting, “Red for message! Red for message! "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

12 " It's all the things in the middle that make a person special. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

13 " It's hard not to feel guilty when starving people bring you food. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

14 " King Barf isn’t actually named King Barf. His real name is King Bartholomew Archibald Reginald Fife, a fine, kingly name—a name with a great destiny, of course. But I don’t care how handsome or powerful that name makes you. It’s a mouthful. So for short I call him King Barf, though I’d never say it out loud. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

15 " All magic has consequences, Rump. Even small magic can have big consequences. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

16 " Just as people laugh at a name like Rump, they fear a name like Red. Red is not a name. It's a color, an evil color. What kind of destiny does that bring? "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

17 " I woke with my name singing in my ears. It was a beautiful sound, music unlike any in the world. It made me wish that everything could have such a name. Not just people, but animals and villages, and roads and kingdoms, even mountains. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

18 " Rumpel. Stiltskin. I heard Mother’s whisper reaching across years and mountains and valleys. Rumpel. Stiltskin. Rumpelstiltskin. The name, my name, shook in my chest. It traveled through my brain and down my arms and fingertips to my legs and toes. The sound of it echoed so loud inside of me I felt I would burst. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

19 " wedding—right "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

20 " A stiltskin is magic at its greatest. Pure magic, un-meddled-with and more powerful than any enchantment or spell. "

― Liesl Shurtliff , Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin