Firebird Quotes

“I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“if I gave into the sheer power of my fear...the bonds of gravity would snap and I'd fly away”
― Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You

“What are you reading?” she asked as he poured himself scotch and her a vodka. She looked over to the deserted volume. “Stories and Legends of Pagan Russia,” she read aloud. “Are you catching up on Yvan’s biography?”
― Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird

“He wasn't wrong to fall for me. Just in the wrong universe.”
― Claudia Gray, Ten Thousand Skies Above You

“You better be able to turn yourself off if you think you’re coming back into my house,” she said. The bird gave her another dubious look before stamping one foot and the flames disappeared leaving long gold and red feathers.
“Oh,” Anya said embarrassed. “I suppose you can.”
― Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird

“Yours was the most beautiful face I'd ever seen because it was the only face I'd ever truly seen. You were the person I saw inside.”
― Claudia Gray, First Impressions: A Firebird Ficlet

“I wish I could put it back together again. Not as it was before- that is of course impossible. But enough to see it, truly see it, as it once was.”
― Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You

“Oh Jesus, oh Zeus, oh Odin,” Anya dropped the stick and started shaking. “Oh shit.” The bird spread out its wings, which slowly transformed back into arms and the rest followed until it was a man once more.”
― Amy Kuivalainen, Cry of the Firebird

“She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless”
― Isha Karki