Quote by Jane Yolen Download Open image ““All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs.”” — Jane Yolen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It was all the answer Rook needed. He plunged his hand into the soil, long fingers grasping down. This was no offering to the… — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
“The barberry berry sticks on the small hedge, cold slits the same crease in the finger, the same thorn hurts. The leaf repeats the… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Hurriedly then he donned his magical sword in its wide scabbard of leather; and with scanty provisions hastened over the fields, after the last… — Lord Dunsany Copy Share Image
“Towering pines and hemlocks, was it? I thought, clambering over the burled knots of a fallen tree. The monstrous trunks rose so high that… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“By the craggy hill-side, Through the mosses bare, They have planted thorn-trees For pleasure here and there. If any man so daring As dig… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him.… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
“A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“He and I were like bookends, fencing in this party that raged between up.” — Aimee Agresti Copy Share Image
“I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.” — Laura Lam Copy Share Image
“Don't waste time looking at the thorns or you'll miss the roses.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“Cinderella, until lately, has never been a passive dreamer waiting for rescue. The forerunners of the Ash-girl have all been hardy, active heroines who… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“1. Write every day 2. Write what interests you. 3. Write for the child inside of you. (Or the adult, if you are writing… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised? — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe,… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
