Kat Howard Quotes

#1. Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked

Kat Howard

#2. I'm convinced hell is actually an eternity of being a snowflake in Nutcracker.

Kat Howard

#3. Our pasts always haunt us. But sometimes the ghosts are friendly, and the memories they bring with them sweet as well as bitter.

Kat Howard

#4. Perhaps the only happily ever after is to survive to tell the story

Kat Howard

#5. It wasn't that I couldn't say it. I could. But there are times that you don't speak, because silence hurts less. There was no need to reopen old wounds when we both wanted them healed.

Kat Howard

#6. Practically raised by wolves, we had joked. The monster and the metaphor, and the way they match up that makes the double-edged word of wit. And then you realize what your words have done, and you weep because you're both bleeding.

Kat Howard

#7. This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

Kat Howard

#8. The waxing moon seemed close enough to touch, if one were brave enough to risk the silver pinpricks of the stars that thorned around it.

Kat Howard

#9. This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.
You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.

Kat Howard

#10. That doesn't mean that I would destroy those works, or that I'm not proud of having come out the other side. Our past art makes our present art as much as our past life makes us who we are now. In the end, if the art stands up, that's what matters.

Kat Howard

#11. Then, because glass slippers would have been a bitch to run in, I laced on a pair of boots, and went down to Ariel's room.

Kat Howard