Quotes by Jean Ferris

C: What do you get when a giant sneezes?Out of the way. - Marigold

I figured that when theres no way of knowing what the future holds its just as easy to believe itll be good as to believe itll be bad.

Just bring your wits. Sometimes thats the most effective weapon any of us has.

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know theres a secret.

Im starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, thats normal. We cant blame it all on Olympias bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what weve done and make up for it. Thats something Olympia never did.

As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who dont. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who wont. Those who will are, Im afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. Its Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that werent coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking.