Quotes by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Everyone gets scared at times. Its only the fools who wont admit it.

No offense, Jaron, but I dont want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be.Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?No.Then you didnt even get a taste.

It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.

Our country is Germany -- one country that should be reunited. We dont belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. Were not cowards.

Nobody gives you respect in this life. You must take it, you must earn it, and then you must hold it sacred, because no matter how hard respect is to attain, it can be lost in an instant. I nodded my head toward the garrison. Go get it, Roden. People wont follow a leader who doesnt know where hes going. Show them what you do.

With each brick, my hopes faded until nothing was left. If there had ever been a chance of Dominic and my father returning, then the wall took that too. My schoolteacher taught us a new song that thanked our leaders for building a wall to keep the fascists out. I muted my glares and only mouthed the words when my teacher was looking - I couldnt bear to sing the lies.

A person can be educated and still be stupid, and a wise man can have no education at all.

I never denied being a fool. Thats the difference between us.

You stole it from the master.Who stole it from me. What I did simply set the universe back in order.

You eat with your left hand. Thats unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?Can you do it with your left?

If he put us in dresses, we wouldnt suddenly become women

Afraid of a wooden sword?Just demonstrating my skills in evading an attack. Impressed?

Get me a real chair

Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.

Above all else, I think that you are a compulsive liar.My laughter was tense, but sincere. Hardly. In fact, I consider myself a compulsive truth teller. Its only that everyone else seems compelled to misunderstand me.

Is it true? Devlin asked me. Youre Prince Jaron?KING Jaron, actually. News must travel slower amongst the illiterate. I glared at Gregor with every inch of disdain I felt. Shouldnt you be groveling to me or bowing or something? Gregor smiled. I think before I have the chance, you will already be dead.Ah. So much for all your toasts to my long life.

And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I dont want them around here.

Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I cant. Even I am not that good a liar.

I havent don anything wrong. At least, not for a few hours

She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, “Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance.