5 Quotes & Sayings By Bethany Wiggins

Bethany Wiggins is the author of the novel, "The Memory of Water." Her fiction has appeared in "The Missouri Review, " "The Threepenny Review," and in the anthology, "American Short Stories." Her work has also been published in academic journals and anthologies. She earned her MA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. She lives with her husband in Missoula, MT.

We are about to be eaten by a dragon, you’re...
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We are about to be eaten by a dragon, you’re crawling on bleeding hands through bat droppings, and you’re worried about being proper? Bethany Wiggins
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I do not see how my agreeing to marry a scruffy old brute will have the power to keep a fire-breathing dragon locked beneath a mountain. And if I don’t agree to marry him, will I truly be fed to the dragon? That is savage, and inhumane, and crazy. Bethany Wiggins
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For a split second I wonder what I am doing here on this battlefield, on the front line. I am a princess. I am soft and regal. I am quiet, forgotten Sorrowlynn, who never leaves her rooms. And yet I am so much more. I have the capacity to be anything. To be everything! This girl running to fight for the greater good is me. For the first time ever, I feel like I am living the life I was meant to be living all along. Bethany Wiggins
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I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living. Bethany Wiggins