Emily Croy Barker Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Emily Croy Barker
That's the problem with translations," she added sadly. "You can never quite reproduce the flavor of the original. — Emily Croy Barker
You know, sometimes, very innocently, you can develop a sort of fascination with a man, and then you see all these little signs that actually don't mean anything, but it's too late because you're reading in them exactly what you want to read. Be careful, is all I'm saying. It's easy to get fooled. — Emily Croy Barker
She'd been an easy mark, so greedy for love that she had given the best of her own heart without stopping to consider what she received in exchange. — Emily Croy Barker
The dead should not have to answer to the claims of the living, even the sharpest grief. — Emily Croy Barker
But the important thing now is to enjoy yourself. A broken heart doesn't heal until you lose it to someone else. You need diversion. You should simply play, play, play - surround yourself with men until one of them makes you forget all about this poor, childish, confused Adam. — Emily Croy Barker
How old did you have to be before you learned the difference between the simulacrum of love and the reality? — Emily Croy Barker
No, the magic doesn't wear off at midnight. It's much more powerful than that. It comes from you. You wanted something, and so it came to be. — Emily Croy Barker
There are a number of good spells for making an animal speak," Aruendiel said to Nora. "It is far more difficult to make them say anything worth listening to." "That — Emily Croy Barker
Killing someone usually turns out to be an enormously complicated solution to what was a much simpler problem. — Emily Croy Barker
My dear young woman, appearances are the only true reality. — Emily Croy Barker
Natural beauty is always tiresome. It lacks that careless touch of artifice that is the hallmark of true originality. There is nothing so overdone and vulgar as unspoilt simplicity. — Emily Croy Barker
Foul are my contents but sweeter than filth from the mouth. — Emily Croy Barker
In some ways, we know our hands better than our faces. — Emily Croy Barker
I could come back tomorrow morning and see if anyone needs any pots mended." "Oh, they will," Morinen said. "People always drop things. I wish I had a pair of stockings for every dish I've broken." The — Emily Croy Barker
And now it turns out that women can't even talk like men. Which is a clever way to invalidate women's discourse, isn't it? No wonder women can't do magic; no wonder spirits won't listen to their puny, trivial, voices. It's all woven into the basic structure of the language. — Emily Croy Barker
Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into her pocket for emergencies - you never knew when you might need a book to entertain and comfort and distract you in the day's empty places — Emily Croy Barker
Somehow you made trudging through the wilderness in the middle of winter with a soul-sucking demon and a soul-sucked would-be murderer seem not so terrible. "But — Emily Croy Barker
It was one thing to read about a society obsessed with female purity - quite another to find yourself living in one. — Emily Croy Barker