Children 's books Quote by Kate Forsyth

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

— Kate Forsyth

Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.

— Kate Forsyth

I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder…

— Kate Forsyth

“Can we make promises to each other, as if we were truly married? Can we swear to be true and faithful and love only…

— Kate Forsyth

She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

— Kate Forsyth

“Soeur Seraphina gently removed my lace fontanges. It was named for the King’s mistress Angelique de Fontanges, who had lost her hat while hunting…

— Kate Forsyth

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be…

— Kate Forsyth

“Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last found my…

— Kate Forsyth

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over…

— Kate Forsyth

I had always been a great talker and teller of tales. 'You should put a lock on that tongue of yours. It's long enough…

— Kate Forsyth

“The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.”

— Kate Forsyth

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

— Kate Forsyth