Quotes by Julie Kagawa

I sheathed my blade and glared at him. And here I almost thought you werent a complete bastard.Well, thats your mistake, not mine.

Now were going to save a bunch of dirty meatsacks from a bunch of dirty cannibals? Why dont we rescue some orphaned kittens and put food out for stray puppies while were at it?

It seemed Lady Luck hated me worse than usual.

But ... but what if I hit you?”A snort. “You’re not going to hit me.”“How do you know?” I bristled at his amused tone. “I could hit you. Even master swordsmen make mistakes. I could get a lucky shot, or you might not see me coming. I don’t want to hurt you.”He favored me with another patient look. “And how much experience do you have with swords and weapons in general?” “Um.” I glanced down at the saber in my hand. “Thirty seconds?”He smiled, that calm, irritatingly confident smirk. “You’re not going to hit me.

Mercy is for the weak… let me show you how much of an Unseelie I still am.

There was nothing sweet or gentle in our last kiss; it was filled with sorrow and desperation, of the bitter knowledge that we couldve had something perfect, but it just wasnt meant to be.

im your enemy, meghan. never forget that. if Mab tells me to kill you in front of the entire court, its my duty to obey.

Having second thoughts?” Puck’s voice was soft and dangerous, a far cry from his normal flippancy. “I thought we put this behind us for now.”“Never,” I said, matching his stare. “I can’t ever take it back, Goodfellow. I’m still going to kill you. I swore to her I would.” Lighting flickered overhead, and thunder rumbled in the distance as we faced each other with narrowed eyes. “One day,” I said softly. “One day you’ll look up, and I’ll be there. That’s the only ending for us. Don’t ever forget.

The Nevernever is dying, human. It grows smaller and smaller every decade. Too much progress, too much technology. Mortals are losing their faith in anything but science. Even the children of man are consumed by progress. They sneer at the old stories and are drawn to the newest gadgets, computers, or video games. They no longer believe in monsters of magic. As cities grown and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.What can we do to stop it? I whispered.Nothing. Grimalkin raised a hind leg and scratched an ear. Maybe the Nevenever will hold out till the end of the world. Maybe it will disappear in a few centuries. Everything dies eventually, human.

Words define us, Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.

I cannot let the fear of the past color the future.

Huh, another queen,” Puck mused, an evil grin crossing his face. “Maybe we should drop in and introduce ourselves, ice-boy. Do the whole, hey, we were just in the neighborhood, and we were just wondering if you had any plans to take over the Nevernever. Have a fruit basket.

Working for Mab now, are you, Wolfman? he smirked. Like a good little attack dog? Will you also roll over and beg if she asks?

Goodfellow snickered.Wouldnt be any fun if we didnt run into some sort of catastrophe. Pulling his dagger ,he waved me on.After you,your highness.Puck to Ash

Scott Waldron. What? Robbies lip curled in a glimace of disgust. The jockstrap? Why, does he need you to teach him how to read? I scowled at him. Just because hes captain of the football team doesnt mean you can be a jerk. Or are you jealous? Oh, of course, thats it, Robbie said with a sneer. Ive always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock...

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

Science is all about proving theories and understanding the universe. Science folds everything into neat logical well-explained packages. The fey are magical capricious illogical and unexplainable. Science cannot prove the existence of faeries so naturally we do not exist. That type of nonbelief is fatal to faries.

My name is Ferrum. I was the first, born of the forges, when mankind first began to experiment with iron. I rose from their imagination, from their ambition to conquer the world with a metal that could slice through bronze like paper. I was there when the world started to shift, when humans took their first steps out of the Dark Ages into civilization. For many years, I thought I was alone. But mankind is never satisfied. Others came, risen from these dreams of a new world... Then, with the invention of computers, the gremlins came, and the bugs. Given life by the fear of monsters lurking in machines, these were more chaotic than the other fey, violent and destructive. They spread to every part of the world. As technology became a driving force in every country, powerful new fey rose into existence. Virus. Glitch. And Machina, the most powerful of all.

I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. Id read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place.

I was Ashallayn’darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.