Alethea Kontis

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

“For some heroes, nothing is impossible”

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

“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.”

“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”

“Sometimes 'Hmm' is the wisest thing to say.”

“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.”

“When sad she brings the thunderAnd her tears, they bring the rainWhen ill she feeds a poisonTo us all to fell her painHer smiles they bring the sunshineAnd the laughter and the windAnd the birds they go on singingAnd the world is whole again. "Smile, sweet Sunday," Wednesday whispered in her ear. "The birds need your love so they can lift their wings.”

“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.”

“No," Wednesday agreed. "You have tortured with silence. You let her grieve for a soul she did not lose, mourn a heart that should not have broken, and berate herself for betraying the man she loves...with the man she loves. It can't be 'true' love without the truth, Rumbold.”

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

“So who is she? No wait, let me guess. Skin of the finest porcelain. Hair of the softest silk. A voice like birdsong, a smile like sunshine, and a mouth that would sate your brightest and darkest wishes."You've met her?""Oh yes, my friend. We all know her. We've all pursued her. Some of us have even been lucky enough to have her. We've been drunk on her sin, become fools of her favor. she might have borne a different face each time, but her name was always the same. Trouble.”

“I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.”

“Even the harmful and awkward and stupid things?" asked Sunday. "There are reasons for those?" "Especially those." said Joy.”

“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”

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

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

“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.”