Top 80 Heather Fawcett Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Violence leads to one thing only, and that is more violence.”

— Heather Fawcett

2. “Perhaps terrible things will result from the choices you made-perhaps good. You can’t know for certain before all’s said and settled. And you certainly can’t blame yourself for the paths that branch off from the one you beaten, even if they lead others to dark places.”

— Heather Fawcett

3. “Night is when wild animals prowl the shadows. When criminals go about their work, and dark creatures stir. Night is danger.”

— Heather Fawcett

4. “Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.”

— Heather Fawcett

5. “Through my tear-hazed vision, the sky seemed bright-too bright. The stars were dancing. My head ached as I tried to take it in-the battle we had fought, the city smoking below me, all the wandering light in the sky above.”

— Heather Fawcett

6. “Only you could climb the highest mountain in the Empire, hunt down a fallen star, and escape the Fifth Army without a trace. – Tem, to Kamzin.”

— Heather Fawcett

7. “I blinked. Standing there, I thought I would have felt joy, or astonishment, or even terror, gazing down at the world so far away. Instead I felt a weary relief, like that which followed putting your feet up after a long day, or completing a chore. I was left with only the feeling that something had ended.”

— Heather Fawcett

8. “The best explorers make the night a little brighter.”

— Heather Fawcett

9. “One doesn’t need magic if one knows enough stories.”

— Heather Fawcett

10. “Now I was heading home. But after that, there was nowhere I couldn’t go.”

— Heather Fawcett

11. “I should, I suppose, mention here that I am perhaps ninety-five percent certain that Wendell Bambleby is not human.”

— Heather Fawcett

12. “Choosing to lock yourself up in a life that doesn’t suit you is its own sort of death, wouldn’t you say?”

— Heather Fawcett

13. “No help for death. No use for tears. Tears will not bring back friends.”

— Heather Fawcett

14. “I wanted to push against the world and feel it push back.”

— Heather Fawcett

15. “He sat with me, chattering away about our triumphant return to Cambridge and ICODEF, and myriad other things, and not expecting anything substantial in reply, which is one of my favourite qualities about him. It sounds odd to admit that I find the company of such a boisterous person restful, but perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.”

— Heather Fawcett

16. “At least you believe me,” I murmured, scratching his ear. He regarded me silently and allowed me to pet him for several seconds before trying to bite my fingers off.”

— Heather Fawcett

17. “You’re like the wind – you’re meant to be out there, among the mountains and the stars, fighting storms and monsters and anything else foolish enough to get in your way.”

— Heather Fawcett

18. “Dragons threaded their way sinuously through the crowd or perched on stone shelves that lined the walls, suffusing the hall with a shifting glow as they begged alternately for scraps and ear rubs from sympathetic guests.”

— Heather Fawcett

19. “I knew you wouldn’t believe it. Just because you have a heart filled with the dust of a thousand library stacks does not mean everybody does.”

— Heather Fawcett

20. “If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she’d ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then cats have self-respect.”

— Heather Fawcett

21. “The loveliness of the view outside stopped me in my tracks. The mountain fell away before me, a carpet of green made greener by the luminous dawn staining the clouds with pinks and golds. The mountains themselves were lightly ensnowed, though there was no threat of a sequel in that cerulean canopy. Within the hinterlands of the prospect heaved the great beast of the sea with its patchy pelt of ice floes.”

— Heather Fawcett

22. “I have never needed rescuing before. I suppose I always assumed that if I ever did, I would have two options: rescue myself or perish.”

— Heather Fawcett

23. “Being wise, apparently, was not knowing a lot of things, but knowing all the things you didn’t know. It was dreadful. She felt very sorry for all the wise people of the world.”

— Heather Fawcett

24. “The snow had ceased, and the sky was a soft eggshell color, the mountains dreaming under their woolen blankets. There was a loveliness in the forest’s absence of color, its haunted dark framed by grey-white boughs, as if the snowfall had winnowed it down to the essence of what a forest is.”

— Heather Fawcett

25. “If you do not admit kindness from others, you cannot be surprised when they fail to offer any.”

— Heather Fawcett

26. “There was something about the stories bound between those covers, and the myriad species of Folk weaving in and out of them, each one a mystery begging to be solved. I suppose most children fall in love with faeries at some point, but my fascination was never about magic or the granting of wishes. The Folk were of another world, with its own rules and customs – and to a child who always felt ill-suited to her own world, the lure was irresistible.”

— Heather Fawcett

27. “I may be of use to you yet, my dear dragon.”

— Heather Fawcett

28. “He sighed. “Well, I don’t expect you to do anything with this information. I have grown rather used to pining, so it won’t put me out to keep at it, I suppose.” “I would order you to do all sorts of terrible things,” I managed, though my voice sounded very far away. “You seem to have a talent for that already.”

— Heather Fawcett

29. “And you shall shut yourself away forever in those old stones with your books and your mysteries like a dragon with her hoard, having as little association with the living as possible and emerging only to breathe fire at your students.”

— Heather Fawcett

30. “If anyone were to claim greater happiness in their careers than I do in poking about sunlit wildwoods for faerie footprints, I should not believe it.”

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31. “Shadow padded up to me and put his head on my knee, all forgiven, as it always is with dogs. If I frightened my cat as I had Shadow, she’d ignore me for days, or possibly put a curse on me, but then cats have self-respect.”

— Heather Fawcett

32. “I could have thrown my arms around him. Indeed, I almost did, but for some perverse reason, I found myself needing to argue with him instead.”

— Heather Fawcett

33. “Bambleby hates to be without company to talk at.”

— Heather Fawcett

34. “He has an unusual way of looking at the world. He does not divide everything into tidy halves the way most people do. Right and wrong, good and evil – he sees beyond absolutes, like all great leaders.”

— Heather Fawcett

35. “All dryadologists accept the existence of those doors that lead to individual faerie homes and villages, such as those inhabited by the common fae. Theories about a second class of door are more controversial, but I myself believe highly credible, given the stories we have of the courtly fae. These are thought to be doors that lead deep into Faerie, into a world wholly separate from our own.”

— Heather Fawcett

36. “Mr. Egilson?” I said politely, shaking the hand. “Well, who else would I be?” my host replied. I wasn’t sure if this was meant to be unfriendly or if the baseline of his demeanour was mild hostility.”

— Heather Fawcett

37. “How was it that I suddenly had faerie kings, plural, demanding to marry me?”

— Heather Fawcett

38. “I must write it down. For it is in writing that I will discover a way out. A door within the story. There is one. It cannot end here. Yet some stories do.”

— Heather Fawcett

39. “One of the guiding principles of dryadology,” I said, “is this: do not cross the sort of Folk who make collections of human body parts.”

— Heather Fawcett

40. “Rose asked me why I was not more surprised by your feat. He does not understand you as I do, Em, but as you seem to consider him a friend now, I told him the truth: in order to be surprised, I could not have known already that you are capable of anything.”

— Heather Fawcett

41. “You are quite yourself again, ink-stained and full of schemes to burden me with, as if I do not already have enough to do.”

— Heather Fawcett

42. “The Folk were of another world, with its own rules and customs – and to a child who always felt ill-suited to her own world, the lure was irresistible.”

— Heather Fawcett

43. “Plenty of talented people in this world are useless,” the witch said. “It’s what you do with your talent that matters.”

— Heather Fawcett

44. “The cat only glared at me, as at home in her hostility as ever a cat can be.”

— Heather Fawcett

45. “I will never again believe you to be incapable of hard work.” He shuddered. “Being capable is not the same as being inclined, Em.”

— Heather Fawcett

46. “I knew you were the real threat. Mortals always are, aren’t they? If you read the stories. The arrogant faerie prince who can make gold from straw is always undone by the humble miller’s daughter, not some powerful rival of his own stature.”

— Heather Fawcett

47. “Spice cake?” I said. Bambleby tumbled back into his chair. “How hard could it be?” “Have you ever made spice cake?” “I’ve certainly eaten it.” “Have you ever made anything?” “That’s neither here nor there.”

— Heather Fawcett

48. “I have learned there is one thing a person never tires of, no matter how long they live. And that is being in love. All else is ash and ember.”

— Heather Fawcett

49. “My life has been one long succession of moments in which I have chosen rationality over empathy, to shut away my feelings and strike off on some intellectual quest, and I have never regretted these choices, but rarely have they stared me in the face as bluntly as they did then.”

— Heather Fawcett

50. “Stories are the architecture of Faerie, more powerful than magic, more powerful than kings.”

— Heather Fawcett