I've read all of the old stories now — "Red Blood and Dirty Gold", "The Winter Witch", "The Scarlet Varulv" — and I want more. Though I want fantasy — made-up, impossible things — I don't want stories that step out of the pages and into the world around me.

Melinda Salisbury
About This Quote

The stories that I read are great, but they are fiction. They are not real. When I read the stories, I want to be able to go out and do what the characters did, to find the swords hidden in the bushes. I want to go up against an enemy and defeat it.

I want to see adventures take place in real life. The kind of stories that I want to read are just like the kind of stories that I want to write.

Source: The Sin Eater's Daughter

Some Similar Quotes
  1. A half-read book is a half-finished love affair. - David Mitchell
  2. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  3. It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and... - Deb Caletti
  4. I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."" Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes,... - Jane Austen
  5. Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. - E. Lockhart
More Quotes By Melinda Salisbury
  1. I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content.
  2. Forgive me again.” He lifts the carafe and refreshes his goblet. “What happened to those two children who laughed at dandelion fuzz?” he says softly. “Are they gone forever, do you think?
  3. What are you dreams, Twylla?”“I — I have none. I have all I want.”“ I don’t believe that. You must have some dreams — everyone does.” “I want… I want to be happy, ” I say, realizing at once that it’s a stupid thing to...
  4. We’re to be married. Does it matter if I permit it?”“ To me it does, yes, ” says Merek. “And I imagine you, like me, appreciate the illusion of having a choice, even when illusion is all it is.
  5. But I want you, ” he smiles at me. “Not just to make me a king. I’ve always wanted you. Despite it all, you are still the bride I would choose. I do choose you.
Related Topics