Ackroyd And Van Quotes & Sayings

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black". — Rick Santorum

What determines our being virtuous is largely the absence of opportunity to be otherwise — Eric Nicol

If you want to live where people are not afraid of mice, you must give up living in palaces. — E. Lockhart

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s. — Robert Greene

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art. — Tucker Max

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked. — Edmund White

Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all. — Jessie Burton

The Deering General Store? Look at it. That's not a place to get a battery. That's a place to lose your wallet. Or your virginity. — Maggie Stiefvater

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities. — Stella Young

Let's hope she's like the others, who look only at the surface. Let's hope she'd never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch. — Franny Billingsley

How about a little teaser from CROWN OF ICE?

Thyra Winther, the current Snow Queen speaks about her "home":

At night the palace's crystal halls are tinged sapphire. One of the first bits of magic that Voss taught me was to set the carved walls alight so that I'm not forced to walk the halls in darkness. I conjure a cold light that glows within the thick walls without melting the ice. I mastered this trick quickly once I knew what those shadows held. If I leave an area in darkness, they come - the girls who reigned as Snow Queen before me.
"I must find it." Their hollow words wind about me like a shroud. "The last piece. I must place it. Give it to me. — Vicki L. Weavil