Shadowsong
S. Jae-Jones
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It isn’t life that keeps the world turning; it is love.”
“Once there was a little girl, who played her music for a little boy in the wood. She was an innkeeper’s daughter and he was the Lord of Mischief, but neither were wholly what they seemed, for nothing is as simple as a fairy tale.”
“For all that I could not bear my own silence, I wanted the voices of the world around me to disappear. Solitude was different from loneliness, and it was solitude I was seeking.”
“Perhaps I loved the monstrous because I was a monster. Josef, the Goblin King, and me. We were grotesques in the world above, too different, too odd, too talented, too much. We were all too much.”
“You didn’t tell me living would be one decision after another, some easy, some difficult. You didn’t tell me living wasn’t a battle, but a war. You didn’t tell me that living was a choice, and that every day I choose to continue was another victory, another triumph.”
“You can be running toward something or running from something, but you cannot do both at once,” she said gently. But my sister did not laugh, “Ah,” she said softly, “but what’s the use of running” – she lifted her eyes to mine – “if you are on the wrong road.”
“What are monsters but mortals corrupted?”
“All that remained of a person once they were gone was a legacy, which would linger only as long as you were loved or hated. Immortality was memory.”
“Madness is not a gift,” I said angrily. “Nor is it a curse,” the Count returned gently, “Madness simply is.”
“For love is our only immortality, and when memory is faded and gone, it is our legacies that endure.”
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s-jae-jones, fantasy, life, wintersong, war, choice, elizabeth, goblins, shadowsong, goblin-king, goblin-groove
