Princess Academy Quotes
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“There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”
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― Princess Academy
“I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.”
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― Princess Academy
“Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“What should I say? That I like him so much it hurts?”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“He did a very good impression of a stone column.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“No wolf falters before the bite, so strike.
No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.
No sun pauses before the set, just strike.
No rain delays before the fall, just swing.”
― Princess Academy
No hawk wavers before the dive, so swing.
No sun pauses before the set, just strike.
No rain delays before the fall, just swing.”
― Princess Academy
“It must be a marvelous thing to feel so sure, to be able to meet someone's eyes and not look away.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Miri woke to the sleepy bleating of a goat. The world was as dark as eyes closed, but perhaps the goats could smell dawn seeping through the cracks in the house's stone walls. Though still half-asleep, she was aware of the late autumn chill hovering just outside her blanket, and she wanted to curl up tighter and sleep like a bear through frost and night and day.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“The next afternoon break, Miri joined the others outside. The sun's glare off the snow made her eyes water, but it seemed the most beautiful day Miri could remember. The sky was achingly blue. The snow that crunched under her boot spread over stone and hillock like spilled cream. The cold made the world feel clean and new, a day for beginnings.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Thinking it's impossible makes it so.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Don't hesitate if you know it's right.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“She spoke quickly, her tongue feeling like a hummingbird's wing; she was so afraid of boring him if she took too long.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“If the world looks too big, I'll hold you that much tighter
If the breeze feels too chill, I'll make the fire hotter
If the storm booms too loud, I'll sing to you still louder
I'll always keep you safe, my tiny, precious daughter”
― Princess Academy
If the breeze feels too chill, I'll make the fire hotter
If the storm booms too loud, I'll sing to you still louder
I'll always keep you safe, my tiny, precious daughter”
― Princess Academy
“I don't want a daughter named after a stone," she had said, choosing instead to name her Miri after the flower that conquered rock and climbed to face the sun.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Tomorrow's a red flush in the western sky
Tomorrow's a black hush in the middle night
Tomorrow swears the truth of now, now, and now
In the trembling blue gasp of the morning light”
― Princess Academy
Tomorrow's a black hush in the middle night
Tomorrow swears the truth of now, now, and now
In the trembling blue gasp of the morning light”
― Princess Academy
“I cut all day and I squared all night
And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might
Then I saw all my work by the bright dawn light
The mountain was the world and my labor a mite”
― Princess Academy
And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might
Then I saw all my work by the bright dawn light
The mountain was the world and my labor a mite”
― Princess Academy
“Katar had given her a small gift by opening her heart and showing her pain. Miri tucked the moment in her own heart and hoped somehow to repay.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“The lowlands aren't so different from here," said Britta. "Just bigger and . . ." "A lot bigger," said Frid. "It's”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“The east says it's dawn
My mouth speaks a yawn
My bed clings to me and begs me to stay
I hear a work song
Say winter is long
I peel myself up and then make away”
― Princess Academy
My mouth speaks a yawn
My bed clings to me and begs me to stay
I hear a work song
Say winter is long
I peel myself up and then make away”
― Princess Academy
“The doings of the quarry had always seemed some bright, forbidden secret. Now it was her secret, and holding it to herself felt warm and delicious, like drinking the last cup of honeyed tea.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Miri laughed in return and felt her face go hot again, and it occurred to her that after so much burning her cheeks should be ashes by now.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Far above the snow clouds, the moon must have been bright and full. Its light bled through the storm, marking each flake with a silvery luster and pouring a pale, peachy glow onto the mountain.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“She looked to her right and saw terror frozen on Britta's and Esa's faces like ice on a windowpane.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Miri's laugh is a tune you love to whistle.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy
“Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”
― Princess Academy
― Princess Academy