Quotes by Marissa Meyer

I havent used my glamour since I was twelve years old,” she whispered, gaze piercing as if it were very important to her that Scarlet understand this. “Not since I was old enough to control it. Thats why the visions come to me. Thats why Im going mad.

Winter shook her head, apology swimming in her amber eyes. Scarlet would have wanted to hug her if she hadn’t simultaneously wanted to strangle her.

She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.

This is Winter, said Scarlet. Princess Winter.Thorne guffawed and pushed a hand into his hair. Are we running a boardinghouse for misplaced royalty around here, or what?

You are the capital U in Unhelpful.

WINTER SPOILER KINDACinder stared at his whitened knuckles and struggled for something meaningful to say. Her grand plan of revolution and change had just begun and already she felt like a failure. This seemed worse than failing the people of Luna, though. Shed failed the people she cared about most in the universe.Finally, she whispered, Im so sorry, Thorne.Yeah, he said. Me too.

The huntsman took pity on her and said, Run away into the woods, child, and never come back.

So much importance pressed into so few words. It was just like Jacin.

WINTER SPOILER - KINDA IDRKCinder looked away. Though so much had changed between them since that night, it still felt like an ice pick in her heart when she remembered the way hed looked at her, and his horrified words: Youre even more painful to look at than she is.

The young princess was as beautiful as daylight. She was more beautiful even than the queen herself

She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust.

She screamed like an assassin was driving a knife into her stomach.She screamed like a thousand birds were pecking at her flesh.She screamed like the palace was burning down around her.

Levanas face was fiercely beautiful. Breathtaking in her viciousness.

No. She will never be queen.” She swayed toward him, and he felt like he was being encircled by a python, smothered and choked.

As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…

The cybernetic operation?No, the sex change.The doctors smile faltered.Im joking.

Maybe the princess could save herself.That sounds like a pretty good story too.

With a nod, Thorne started down the street. This way. Five steps later, he paused, pondered, turned around. No, no, this way. Were dead. No, Ive got it now. Its this way. Dont you have an address? A captain always knows where his ship is. Its like a psychic bond. If only we had a captain here. He ignored her, marching down the street with spectacular confidence.

He asked what she was in for and complimented the find workmanship of her metal extremities, but she ignored him, making him briefly question if hed been separated from the female population for so long that he could be losing his charm. But that seemed unlikely.

Well, Cinder finally grumbled. I guess that was pretty fast thinking. A relieved grin filled up Thornes face. Were having another moment, arent we? If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, than I guess we are.