Jane Yolen Quotes

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

She left two mermaid tears, crystals with a bit of salt embedded in them, on his pillow.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

The salt smell of the ocean, sharp and steady, called to her from the window. Looking out, she saw her sisters, the waves, beckoning her with their white arms.

Live, he whispered. For my Chaya. For all our Chayas. Live. And remember.

And at twelve, heading for adulthood, a child fears that the way she is at that moment is all she's ever going to be.

He was always being sent away from place to place for lying. The problem was, he never lied. He simply saw truth differently from other folk. On the slant.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

You've got some power, Jakkin said. One hug—and the lights go out!

War is our backyard, famine our feast. Most fear the wind of our wings and even, in their hurt, pray for life. Only a few, a very few, truly pray for death. But we answer all their prayers with the sa...

And I say that to tell a prince to his face that you have dreamed of his doom invites the dreamer's doom as well. And, as you yourself reminded me, it may not be all of the truth. The greatest wisdom...

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell aslee...

The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while a story with Death might be true, a story with a king in it is always a fairy tale. But remember, t...

Fiction is like wrestling with angels-you do not expect to win, but you do expect to come away from the experience changed.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.

You think you know this story. You do not.

Do not expect too much from your child and she will grow in your love... But if you push her too much, you will push her away. A child is not yours to own but to raise. She may not be what you will ha...