Fractured Fairy Tale Quotes

“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless

“My father once said we are all dealt a hand at birth. A good hand can ultimately lose - just as a poor hand can win - but we must all play the cards fate deals. The choices we face may not be the choices we want, but they are choices nonetheless.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“Have you not figured it out yet? The curse torments us all.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“He flipped his spiked tail straight into the air in what could only be interpreted as an obscene gesture.

Rexi duplicated it in human form. “Right back atcha.”
― Betsy Schow, Spelled

“She was right - I have had over three hundred women to practice on. I should have known better.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“You're exquisite. You're transcendent. And you are mine.”
― A.G. Howard, Untamed

“Feeling your body beneath me was the closest to heaven that I shall ever come.” He spoke not in a whisper but on an intimate level, his voice rolling like the caress of dark velvet. “Your skin, your mouth, your body, your sweet, sweet moans, and your blood… I want them all. I want quite a bit more, actually. So you best prepare yourself, my lady. Since I’m already damned, I aim to have all of you. I want to see that look of ecstasy on your face over and over again when I’m buried deep inside you and you’re screaming my name.”
― Juliette Cross, The Red Lily

“Rhen puts his hands on my arms and leans in. When he speaks, his voice is very low, very quiet, just for me. "My father is dead, my lady. My whole family is dead." He pulls back, meeting my gaze, but his voice doesn't change. "That monster killed them all.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“A Baba Yaga never breaks a promise. Legs, yes. Hearts, occasionally. But never a promise.”
― Deborah Blake, Wickedly Magical

“There are dead bodies at my feet and children whimpering in the snow. Any minute, my brain is going to catch up and I'm going to collapse into sobs.

Instead, I saw the only thing my addled mind can come up with. "Thanks.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

“It became legend that no one should wander too close to the sorceress's enchanted forest or she would send forth a blizzard, causing them to lose their way and be caught in the land of ice and snow for all time.”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“There is no place far enough that you can run. If a doe flees into the forest as far as her legs will carry her, does not the wolf simply follow?”
― Juliette Cross, The Red Lily

“You know, I once had a little boy in Hiddleston come up to me and ask if I conjured up the hartsstone.”
“What did you tell him?” he asked.
She spoke in her scratchy, witchy voice, “Why of course I do. Every full moon, my boy. And the wolves howl. And the fairies rise from their bowers, then we dance in a round, breathing in the powerful magic of the hartstone.”
― Juliette Cross, The Red Lily

“Is he evil?" the dog asked, an eager gleam in his wide brown eyes. "If he's evil, I'd be happy to eat him for you.”
― Deborah Blake, Wickedly Magical

“So while the world thinks of you as a real-life Bruce Wayne with hundreds of millions in the bank and models draped across your arm, you’re really Batman, aligned with the Resistance, and you kidnapped me for your own good?”
“Exactly,” he said.
“Isn’t that what an assassin would say in such circumstances?” She batted her eyelashes.”
― Avery Flynn, His Undercover Princess

“His jaw clenched tight. “I could not resist you last night if the world itself was on fire.”
― Juliette Cross, The Red Lily

“A punch of erotic adrenaline took the breath right out of him …”
― Juliette Cross, The Emerald Lily

“I want you so much, I feel like if I don’t make you mine soon, then some part of me will break away and disappear into the unknown. Then another will break away and another, until there’s nothing left of me at all but a hollow void. A shell of a man.”
― Juliette Cross, The Emerald Lily

“You undo me, woman,” he breathed.
“You make me whole,” she whispered.”
― Juliette Cross, The Emerald Lily

“The princess requests your princess at the Kronig. She says…” Bendsten paused, a smile curling his normally taciturn expression into one of humor. “One kidnapping deserves another.”
― Avery Flynn, His Undercover Princess

“Oh, fairling,” he breathed, “you light up the dark.”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t half of the time.”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“Great King Vasilli,” one of the fairy women said, “we know that you come from the Northern Kingdom. We’ve seen you and your men journey through here before to the lands outside. This night we found a wayward traveler.”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“I love that sound,” he said against her lips, sucking her bottom lip.
“I love it when you make me make that sound.”
― Juliette Cross, The Red Lily

“I know all the tells a woman makes when she wants me. The furtive glance. The parted mouth. The rapid heartbeat. The light sheen of sweat on her skin…”
― Juliette Cross, The Red Lily

“Is your mom afraid something will happen to you?" "I," said Harriet, with absolute confidence, "am something that happens to other people.”
― Ursula Vernon, Whiskerella

“I looked up at Ewan. He’d told me himself his job was to hunt people like me. To track them down and arrest – or kill – them. For all I knew, he was taking me to a cell somewhere. Me and my dragons could be in terrible danger. But if so, why was he looking at me like that? No. I was safe with Ewan. Everything in his eyes said so.
“Why are you helping me?” I whispered.
Ewan smiled. “Your hair.”
“My hair?”
He grinned playfully. “Got a thing for girls with long hair.”
― Melanie Karsak, Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel

“I grinned. “Start at the beginning.”
“Once upon a time---“
“It did not start with “Once upon a time.”
“No? It should have. All the best stories do. Now, where was I? Once upon a time…”
― Melanie Karsak, Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel

“I swallowed hard, trying not to let my feelings show. To hide them, I grinned. “Ewan, I have something to tell you,” I whispered.
The lines around his mouth trembled. “Yes?”
“You won’t laugh.”
“Rapunzel… No, of course not.”
“Ewan… I love bacon.”
At that, Ewan laughed then placed his arm around my shoulder and pulled me close, planting a kiss on the top of my head. “Yeah. Me too.”
― Melanie Karsak, Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel

“You’re better than butter upon bacon.”
“That’s a good line. Did you learn that from reading Jane Austen?”
“No, that’s all Ewan Goodwin.”
― Melanie Karsak, Golden Braids and Dragon Blades: Steampunk Rapunzel