Top 50 Meagan Spooner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Because the law will never be just. Perhaps it can come close – so close the line is hard to see. But laws are written by men, who are imperfect by nature, and justice belongs to something beyond the power of men.”

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2. “We always know before the change comes. When a storm approaches, we feel it in the thickness of the air, the tension in the earth awaiting the blanket of snow. We feel the moment the wind changes direction. We sense a shift of power when it is coming. Tonight.”

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3. “I would give up a thousand happy endings just to go back with you to your valley, and live as we did. I’d give up every fairy tale I’ve ever known just to hear you say my name again.”

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4. “That I am a prisoner too. And have been far longer than you.”

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5. “BEAST She calls you Beast, for that is what you are. And Beauty. The surprise is not the compliment, not the truth, that she is beautiful. The surprise is not that we wish to help her. The surprise is not even the electric warmth that rises at the sound of her voice, even when she is shouting. The surprise is how much I long to hear her call me, just once more, Ivan.”

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6. “Vis in magia, in vita vi.” In magic there is power, and in power, life.”

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7. “It wasn’t Sherwood Forest he haunted, it was Marian. She carried him in her thoughts and she would carry out his will with her own hands.”

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8. “There’s no such thing as living happily ever after – there’s only living. We make the choice to do it happily.”

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9. “It’s the wanting that brought me here, to her. To another soul as empty as mine, and yet not empty at all, because it’s so full of everything I thought only I ever felt. Her soul against mine feels like music, like a heartbeat, like magic. Like beauty.”

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10. “We’re inches apart yet worlds away.”

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11. “We curse everything, for we are cursed, and we have no arms to shelter her and no lips to press to her hair and above all no words to tell her that we know loss and we know pain and if they were monsters we could fight we would have slain them in her name long ago like the heroes of old. But we are not a hero. We are cursed.”

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12. “She wept because she did not know what she wanted, and because she wanted everything.”

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13. “We may be the only ones who think that braving a series of crumbling death traps is proof of good decision making.”

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14. “She was so tired, after all – tired of fairy tales and magic and empty castles, tired of wanting so intensely that she didn’t know what she wanted.”

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15. “I am not asking you to love me,” he said, his voice ringing in the quiet winter air. “Only that you let me love you. As I do.”

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16. “Because I thought I couldn’t be happy until I went home, and then I thought I couldn’t be happy until I came back.”

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17. “All of it – for this. Leading us to a door we can’t open, a password we don’t have.”

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18. “She moves like an animal in a woman’s body. She moves like beauty.”

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19. “Her thoughts came to life in the stillness of the wood, nurtured by the air and the scent and the vividness of it.”

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20. “I will call you Beauty, for that is what you are.”

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21. “I’m improvising, but I’ve been doing that my whole life.”

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22. “Gravity could not possibly be enough to keep me from falling up into that pit of blackness.”

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23. “She remembered perching on the sill of her bedroom window with the pane opened a crack so she could let the winter in, and she remembered letting it sting her nose and wash over her until she was shivering and blue.”

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24. “But I’m struggling to convince myself that logic had anything to do with it.”

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25. “Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.”

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26. “Who are you to say that being a lady, in itself, is not its own kind of war.”

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27. “But perhaps they were simply in love. Perhaps their hearts had betrayed them, and not their courage.”

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28. “Fire cannot hurt us. And yet, when we light her a lantern, there is a moment as we watch the wick flare in the darkness-a moment in which I want to touch the flame. Just to see if I can still be burned.”

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29. “Radical and insurgent and impatient. Those qualities sound more like you, my love.”

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30. “I was always lonely, and I never knew it until I met the Beast.”

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31. “Speaking of wishes, who wished for a man who would love her for her skill?”

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32. “It has been so long since we have heard a voice that was not screaming.”

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33. “There is something out there, he’d said. Something cunning.”

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34. “We won’t fade quietly into this darkness.”

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35. “You disapprove,” she commented. “Because I’m a girl?” “No.” The voice paused. “Females are often the best hunters. They must provide for the young and survive when the males are too busy posturing to do so. But this is not the way with humans.” “Humans?”

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36. “I heard her voice, her stories, her softness as she spoke of her family, and her iron as she spoke of me – I heard her scream, and I moved without thought.”

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37. “We always know before the change comes – but we never know what the change will bring.”

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38. “But arrows are winged creatures.”

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39. “There were maybe thirty or forty of them – nothing to how many were in the ruined library – but these had been cared for, protected and preserved against the years. And though they showed wear, cracked spines and corners rubbed such that the dye had faded, it was the kind of wear from use, the wear her own family’s books had shown before they sold them. These books were read, many times. These books were loved. The.”

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40. “Flirtation was already outside Marian’s expertise, but trying to seem receptive to his advances was all the harder when he made none.”

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41. “None of this was what held Yeva’s gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle.”

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42. “I’ve heard this sound before, she realized, her entire body tingling. She’d caught glimpses of it, like a distant haunting refrain, in her deepest moments of silence in the wood. When the long days stretched timelessly on, and her mind emptied of thoughts until there was only her footsteps in the snow, only the feel of the bow in her hand, the bite of cold on her cheeks. When everything else faded away, this sound was what was left.”

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43. “My despair is mine alone, and I am so tired.”

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44. “Surrender. An archer tries to master his bow, to force the arrow where he wants it to go. He tries with strength and focus and discipline to master it. He uses tougher gloves and stronger bowstrings and stiffer limbs, and restraint. But arrows are winged creatures, and will not be restrained. To shoot like that, one must surrender control.”

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45. “She’s captivating too, maybe more than she was before, with the tale of our survival written on her features.”

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46. “Desire and greed are human traits. We are the Beast. And yet... I wish.”

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47. “Such a deadly thing, a feather.”

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48. “But arrows are winged creatures, and will not be restrained.”

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49. “Grief, thought Marian, was not the melancholy mourning of a loss, not the long and dwindling ache that ballads sang of. It was forgetting, and remembering, again and again, an endless series of slashes, each as violent and sharp as the last.”

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50. “This isn’t some after-school feel-good movie special.”

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