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“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.鈥� 鈥擫ily Winter”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. 鈥淗ere, dragon-dragon-dragon!鈥� he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Odd names: Winter, Autumn鈥攖hey almost sound as if someone just made them up.鈥� 鈥擠ubb”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.鈥� 鈥擡bb Autumn”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“I鈥檓 alive,鈥� he groaned. 鈥淏ut I鈥檓 not doing a very good job of it.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“But鈥�" yelped Twizbang, 鈥淕reydor will eat us!”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You鈥檙e one of us now鈥攖he Tribe of the Teddy Bear.鈥� From Tribe of the Teddy Bear”
― J. Joseph Wright

“What鈥檚 going on?鈥� Ingrid asked. 鈥淟isten, nothing bad today, please.鈥� She pulled a chair out and sat down.
Faye stared at her and said the words as quickly as she could. 鈥淚鈥檓 just going to give it to you straight as I can. Mila is a witch.鈥�
Ingrid busted out with a laugh. 鈥淚 wouldn鈥檛 call her that,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 a little harsh, isn鈥檛 it?鈥� She poured the juice into her glass and took a drink. 鈥淲hat did the brat do this time?鈥� She set her glass down.”
― Taylor Keys, Double Bubble Boil and Trouble

“A falcon. I can see that. I thought you said nothing lived here?鈥�
Sand鈥檚 face went blank. 鈥淭here was nothing alive, except for me, until Merlin. And then you.鈥�
Perrotte bit back her exasperation, and said simply, 鈥淕o on.鈥�
He twined his blunt-tipped fingers together, staring down at them. 鈥淚, erm. I found the falcon in the mews.鈥� 鈥淪o, it鈥檚 not true that there was nothing alive in the castle?鈥�
鈥淭he truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it鈥檚 exhausting to get them out in the right order.鈥� He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she鈥檇 heard one. She raised an eyebrow.
鈥淭he falcon was dead!鈥� Sand blurted out. 鈥淪tuffed and mounted, and then also damaged in the sundering. I mended him, and put him on the mantel, so I鈥檇 have something to talk to. But a couple days before you鈥攜ou came upstairs鈥斺€� He gestured helplessly at the bird, who stopped stripping water from its feathers just long enough to glare at the humans. Perrotte stared. 鈥淭he bird came to life,鈥� she whispered. 鈥淎fter you put it to rights, this falcon came to life. Just like me.鈥�
鈥淲ell . . .”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“You鈥檙e not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.鈥� He paused and shook his head at himself. 鈥淎nd Perrotte鈥檚 away for a few minutes, and you鈥檙e talking to yourself again.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“The magical force that had sundered everything in the castle had occasionally made some very odd choices in its destruction鈥擲and found a hammer that had been broken only at the wooden handle and not any of the metal parts, and another hammer whose handle was whole while the metal was broken.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“Perrotte frowned. 鈥淚鈥檇 like to turn a plowshare into a sword ,鈥� she said. 鈥淚鈥檇 cut our way out of those thorns, and then use it to run my enemies through鈥斺€� She bit off her next words and swallowed them. Sand stared at her, aghast. She met his eyes, defiant. 鈥淲hat? You don鈥檛 like bloodthirstiness?鈥� she asked. 鈥淧ardon? No. I鈥檓 horrified that you would dull a sword on that thorn brake. I could make you some pretty good hedge shears.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it鈥檚 exhausting to get them out in the right order.鈥� He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she鈥檇 heard one. She raised an eyebrow.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“Saint Melor鈥檚 father was Saint Meliau.鈥�
鈥淲as everyone in Berta猫yn a saint, back in the day?鈥�
鈥淓veryone who didn鈥檛 murder anyone, maybe,鈥� Perrotte said.”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“Are you suggesting we eat cursed fruit? Vicious fruit? Attacking fruit?”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“How did you get into the castle, Alexandre, son of Gilles Smith?鈥�
Sand shrugged. 鈥淎 saint kidnapped me from his shrine and put me into a fireplace here. So I guess the answer is, a miracle of Saint Melor. Or so I think. He has not told me.鈥�
鈥淚f you are trying to antagonize him, you are doing a good job,鈥� Perrotte whispered.
Sand scuffed his shoe at her. 鈥淚鈥檓 just telling the truth!鈥�
鈥淵ou鈥檙e very good at telling it in the most maddening way possible.鈥�
鈥淭hank you?”
― Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns

“Most families have secrets. Locked deep within their family tree, these secrets are hidden from the rest of the world.
Now, it was said most families, because there is one family with one extraordinary secret. A secret so wonderful and terrific that its impact changed many lives forever.”
― Carolina Ugaz-Mor谩n, Aline and the Blue Bottle

“Do good;
Do the impossible.
See what no one else can see,
And be brave.”
― T. Harriman, BURN THIS BOOK: THE 10,000-YEAR PLAN

“Someone else stirred, scurried to the threshold and breathed in the cold night air. Liquid shadows were moving, under the trees that surrounded the trail. Eva heard the howl of wolves! "Go with them, Tag," Eva whispered. "Black-Claw, you can go ahead!”
― Suzy Davies, The Girl in The Red Cape

“I'm looking for a lighthouse," said Snugs, full of hope, "filled with sand in lots of different colours!"
"Are they expensive?" the two moose chimed together.”
― Suzy Davies, Snugs The Snow Bear

“But even though I didn鈥檛 think he liked me very much, at least he hadn鈥檛 called me any names or told me I smelled like death.
So that was an improvement.”
― Joanne Levy, Sorry For Your Loss

“Captain Lightowler was in a very jovial mood that morning. The deckhands had been sweeping and mopping the deck, and the cabin maids were dusting, polishing, and tidying the cabins. The engineers on board who looked after the ship so everything in the engine room ran smoothly, had checked everything was in order.”
― Suzy Davies, Snugs The Snow Bear