Quotes About Changelings

#1. Like all power, psychic power had a flip side. Changelings could turn feral. Psy could turn murderously insane.

Nalini Singh

#2. I love the stories of changelings and the thought that the Fey were these ancient, capricious creatures who were tricky and dangerous. I've always preferred the Brothers Grimm faery tales to the Disney fairy tales.

Julie Kagawa

#3. No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

Winifred Holtby

#5. All changelings knew that, sometimes, touch could heal what words never could.

Nalini Singh

#6. The Irish mingled their Christianity with folk beliefs in fairies and changelings.

Ryan Hackney

#7. Humans and changelings had hobbies, he thought in one corner of his mind. This would be his.

Nalini Singh

#8. Changelings are fish you're supposed to throw back. A cuckoo raised by sparrows. They don't quite fit anywhere. (pg. 134)

Holly Black

#9. The walk to the exit brought him into contact with several changelings. That wasn't unusual. What was unusual was the response his presence elicited. Smiles, waves, shouted hellos and even slaps on the back when he didn't move away fast enough.

Nalini Singh

#10. The temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#11. The Psy race's greatest advantage was the mind; the changelings', the body.

Nalini Singh

#12. Jellyfish," Riaz said, after considering the other inhabitants of the sea. "Seriously, there cannnot be jellyfish changelings."
Hawke turned to look over his shoulder. "What the hell have you been smoking?"
Riaz shruged, his mood undampened. "It was green and leafy.

Nalini Singh

#13. If you were willing to trade him away, even for an hour, then you don't deserve him. I'll keep them both to raise as my own and let that be our judgment on you for breaking and oath with us. (pg. 9)

Holly Black

#14. So you're not talking to Cadence, laughing in class because of the notes the two of you pass back and forth? You didn't just get up and walk away from your friends after they ran her off? All of that, it's all bullshit right?
Shit. He knows.

Melyssa Winchester

#15. I didn't think that Herefordshire Social Services would be best pleased about me dumping a poorly socialised pre-teen with mind control powers on them.

Ben Aaronovitch

#16. The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.

Jeremy Taylor

#17. Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.

Jorge Valdano

#18. Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be able to buy and read them. In this way we can help to cultivate spiritual culture in them also.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#19. You've already given me better than I've ever had.

Lisa Kessler

#20. surfing, writing, composing, and programming deep into the night, like it's the early 1980s with the hue of poison-green CRT illuminating the room, Nike running shoes on the floor, hair metal poster on the door, and everything is infinite, made of fibre optics and floppy disks . . .

Mike Walker

#21. In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Smokey Robinson

#22. Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.

Clifford Odets

#23. When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

Peter Coyote

#24. It looked good on paper- a little blood, a little death, a small resurrection- but it usually ended in a lot of carnage and an extremely painful, permanent death.

Bethany K. Lovell

#25. Twentieth-century physics, going full circle back to Heracleitus, postulates that all matter is in motion. In other words, there is no thing, only energy.

Camille Paglia

#26. I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

Ann Marie Buerkle

#27. Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.

Nalini Singh

#28. The way I see it, he's all we have left of
her.

Jodi Picoult

#29. Although she was not conventionally beautiful, she was so original that it rendered the question of beauty inconsequential.

Lisa Kleypas

#30. It's the whole big picture that we have to look at to create an organization that wins over the long term. And to just shoot from the hip on a decision based on winning over a 10-game period. No, that doesn't make sense.

Henry Samueli

#31. Everybody look at you strange, say you changed
Like you work that hard to stay the same.

Jay-Z