Alethea Kontis Quotes

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot.

Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

Dream of me, my beloved family, happy in my plundering and adventuring, for when the waves rock me to sleep tonight, I will be dreaming of you.

We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.

Normal is all relative.

Your fey cousin here has the miraculous ability to hold his liquor--and mine, and yours, and the king's, and half the country's, I expect.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

May we all be doomed to a happy life.

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

She needed him to keep her sane, to make her laugh, to feel complete

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.

Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

Somethings were meant to be and somethings were just meant to be good stories

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

They know their crime, " she said. "They know their shame.

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

If the bird was made, it chose to be made. It's here because it chooses to be with you.