Top 35 April Genevieve Tucholke Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Some people don’t deserve to live. And, to go a step further, some people need to die.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

2. “Sunshine, if I ever disappear, please tell people that I ran after the Devil, trying to get my soul back.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

3. “Sometimes people just leave, Midnight. They realize they are on the wrong path, or that they are in the wrong story, and they just go off in the middle of the night and leave.” Here.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

4. “All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

5. “When you look into the darkness, the darkness looks into you.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

6. “It took strength to be quiet. It took strength to be kind. It took strength to let other people’s cruelty bounce right off of you.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

7. “Wink kissed deep. Deep as a dark, misty, forest path. One that lead to blood and love and death and monsters.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

8. “They called us the Mercies, or sometimes the Boneless Mercies. They said we were shadows, ghosts, and if you touched our skin, we dissolved into smoke.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

9. “You stop fearing the Devil when you’re holding his hand...”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

10. “You just have to eat a strawberry and then wait for tomorrow.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

11. “I wanted to change my fate, to force it down another road. I wanted to stand in the river of time and make it flow a different direction, if just for a little while.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

12. “Hence? My habit of reading more than I socialized made me use odd, awkward words without thinking.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

13. “Lying makes life more interesting. Not to mention easier, for the most part.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

14. “You shall love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart,” I said. “What?” “It’s from a poem by Auden. It’s something Freddie used to say sometimes.” “What’s it mean?” “That nobody is perfect, I think.” “Well,” River replied. “That’s the truest thing said round the world today.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

15. “Juniper said the gods like to humble people who dream big dreams. But the gods had never done much for me, and I wasn’t afraid of them.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

16. “All the strangest things are true.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

17. “Did you think that if you created a fairy tale and made all of us play along, made me defeat a monster and become a hero... you’d have a happy ending, like a princess in a hayloft story?”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

18. “There’s truths and then there’s truths, Violet. And some damn truths shouldn’t be spoken out loud, or the Devil will hear, and then he’ll come for you. Amen.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

19. “Your life is not your own, Vi,′ she said. ‘Don’t you know that? It belongs to the people who love you. So you need to take better care of it.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

20. “I didn’t move for a bit, just lay there thinking about things. Like how the world was full of mystery and magic and horror and love.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

21. “Juniper began a death prayer. It was a familiar invocation, asking the sea to bring the peace of deepest sleep, and the wind to whisper the girl’s name in its travels.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

22. “Once upon a time, in the final days before Salt and Marsh Witch War, four Boneless Mercies turned their backs on the death trade, and went west, seeking immortality.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

23. “The Citizen’s attic was, objectively, breathtaking. The place was littered with trunks and old clothes and wardrobes and pieces of furniture and strange metal toys no one had played with in sixty years and half-painted canvases and on and on. There were several round windows to let in the sunlight, and I loved how it raked its way across the floor as I watched, dust dancing like sugerplum fairies in the bold yellow glow. If attics could make wishes, this one would have nothing to wish for.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

24. “I was a Mercy-girl with no family, no home, no fortune, and yet my blood sang a song of glory.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

25. “Revenge. Justice. Love. They are the three stories that all other stories are made up of. It’s the trifecta.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

26. “I loved him. God help me, I loved him more than a girl has ever loved a boy. More than anyone has ever loved anyone.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

27. “Leaf once told me that there was absolutely no difference between the Orphans’ fairy tales and the nose on my face, because both were only as real as I thought they were.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

28. “I coughed and choked, and drowned on moonlight, which tastes like butter and steel and salt and mist. And then, just like that, just when I thought she was going to kill me, suck the air out of my lungs and make me a ghost too, she lifted her hand, and... faded away.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

29. “Once upon a time I thought I could change stories, make them go the way I wanted, instead of where they actually went.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

30. “That girl made me feel like I was dreaming. Broad daylight dreaming.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

31. “For your sake I have braved the glen, and had to do with goblin merchant men. Eat me, drink me, love me. Hero, Wolf, make much of me. With clasping arms and cautioning lips, with tingling cheeks and fingertips, cooing all together.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

32. “Freddie used to say that Life could be safe, or it could be interesting, but it couldn’t be both.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

33. “Warriors are loud, and Mercies are quiet. There is strength in silence.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

34. “To all those who seek glory.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

35. “I loved my bedroom... the vanity with the warped mirror, the squat chairs without armrests, the elaborate, oriental dressing screen. I loved curving my body into the velvet sofa, books piled at my feet, the dusty, floor-length curtains pushed back from the windows so I could see the sky. At night the purple-fringed lampshades turned the light a hue somewhere between lilac and dusky plum.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

36. “Pain is a part of life. Pain is a sign of life. The dead feel nothing.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

37. “Nothing is written in the stars, our journey is our own.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

38. “I am Frey, former Boneless Mercy, ally of the Sea Witches, failed slayer of the Cut-Queen, mourner of Runa the Archer, companion to Trigve, friend to Jarl Roth. I defeated the giant Logafell. I am woman, wanderer, warrior. This is not the end of my story.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke

39. “Fortune favors brave women.”

— April Genevieve Tucholke