Marissa Meyer famous quotes

Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Once Upon A Time #Stories

I'm sure I'll feel much more grateful when I find a guy who thinks complex wiring in a girl is a turn-on.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Girl #Grateful #Thinking

I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Thinking #Betrayed #Found

I know this is stupid, but part of me felt like if I could come see you today, if I could convince you to go with me tonight, then maybe I could still change things. It's dumb, I know. It's not like Levana cares if I, you know, might have actual feelings for someone.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Stupid #Feelings #Dumb

My only mistake was in waiting too long to be rid of you", Adri said, running the washcloth between her fingers. "Believe me, Cinder. You are a sacrifice I will never regret.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Running #Regret #Mistake

Imagine there was a cure, but finding it would cost you everything. It would completely ruin your life. What would you do?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Ruins #Cost #Imagine

She briefly wished she did have some sort of magic so she could shoot a bolt of lightning through his head.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Magic #Lightning

He [Kai] blinked. His eyes fell as he processed her response. Then he lifted his chin and attempted a grin that was almost painfully dejected. "No, it's all right. I understand." Dr. Erland leaned back against his desk. "My sincerest condolences, Your Highness. In more ways than one, it seems.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Condolences #Eye #Way

Prince Kai! Check my fan, I think I'm overheating.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Thinking #Fans #Checks

I don't want to tell you how to be a prince, but shouldn't you have some bodyguards or something?" "Bodyguards? Who would want to harm a charming guy like me?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Guy #Want #Charming

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Cities #Two #People

The doctor brushed past her and gestured at the holographic image that jutted from the netscreen. "Let me tell you what is peculiar about it" "I'd say 36.28 percent of it is pretty peculiar
-- Marissa Meyer

#Past #Doctors #Peculiar

Kai cleared his throat. Stood straighter. "I assume you are going to the ball?" "I-I don't know. I mean, no. No, I'm sorry, I'm not going to the ball." Kai drew back, confused. "Oh well...but...maybe you would change your mind? Because I am, you know." "The prince." "Not bragging," he said quickly. "Just a fact.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Sorry #Confused #Mean

You could move to Europe." "You know, I've actually been considering that lately." Kai laughed again, the warmth returning to the sound. "If that's not a vote of confidence, I don't know what is.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Moving #Europe #Sound

She raised her eyebrows in a look that she hoped conveyed how much she was all right with him leaving her. After all, he was a prince. The most powerful men and women on Earth had summoned him. She understood. And yet he was still here, with her. "I'm fine," she said. "Go away.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Powerful #Men #Eyebrows

Hello?" A girl again. "I know you can hear me. I'm sorry my friend is such a wing nut. You can just ignore him." "That's usually what we do," said the other feminine voice.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Girl #Sorry #Nuts

Let's pick it up," the man behind her said. "How many more of the tranquilizers do you have?" "Just three," the girl panted. "Gonna have to restock." "Right. I'll just... head down... to the convenience store, and-" she didn't finish, the strain too much.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Girl #Men #Too Much

I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back." "You're kidding, right?" He shrugged. "You have no proof either." She squinted back at him. "Were you planning on giving it back?" "Maybe." An orange light blinked on in the corner of Cinder's vision-her cyborg programming picking up on the lie.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Lying #Thinking #Orange

Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny hotness.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Thinking #Lips #Viruses

Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Love Is #Kind #Feels

Lines drawn into his face suggested he had spent many years thinking very hard over very difficult problems.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Thinking #Years #Lines

He was the fantasy of every girl in the country. He was so far out of realm, her world, that she should have stopped thinking about him the second the door had closed. Should stop thinking about him immediately. Should never think about him again, except maybe as a client - and her prince. And yet, the memory of his fingers against her skin refused to fade.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Girl #Country #Memories

She was a cyborg, and she would never go to a ball.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Balls #Cyborg

You have no idea how to dance, do you?” Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. “I’m a mechanic.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Ideas #Mind #Mechanic

Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?” Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—” The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie. “I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air. Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Sorry #Lying #Fall

That you prefer to rule through fear rather than justice? So sorry, Your Majesty, I’m afraid I already knew that about you.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Sorry #Justice #Majesty

Steadying herself with both hands on the table, she managed an awkward bow.... 'Your Highness,' she stammered, head lowered... The prince flinched and cast a glance over his shoulder before hunching toward her. 'Maybe, um...' - he pulled his fingers across his lips - 'on the Highness stuff?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Hands #Awkward #Tables

...but I’m trying to be inconspicuous.” Cinder considered telling him it wasn't working but thought better of it. The lack of a throng of screaming girls surrounding her booth was probably evidence that it was working better than she suspected. Instead of looking like a royal heartthrob, he just looked crazy.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Girl #Crazy #Trying

Oh, my stars! Think about Prince Kai! You could dance with Prince Kai!” This made Cinder pause and squint into Iko’s blinding light. “Why would the prince dance with me?” Iko’s fan hummed as she sought an answer. “Because you won’t have grease on your face this time.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Stars #Thinking #Light

It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Looks #Rotting #Pumpkin

I have a glitch, too. Sometimes I forget that I’m not human. I don’t think that happens to most androids.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Thinking #Androids #Glitches

Nothing makes an android feel more useless than when a human is crying.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Androids #Useless #Cry

Soon, the whole world would be searching for her -Linh Cinder. A deformed cyborg with a missing foot. A Lunar with a stolen identity. A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go. But they will be looking for a ghost.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Running #Feet #Missing

Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into perceiving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you are beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Beautiful #Mirrors #Vanity

He was still dazed, and though she hated to admit it, he was actually rather attractive. If a girl happened to like that square-jaw, bright-blue-eyes, devilish-dimples kind of thing. Although he was in desperate need of a haircut and a good shave.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Girl #Eye #Blue

I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Apology #Lied

Besides, if you are who you claim to be, that makes you my true queen. Therefore, you have my loyalty.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Loyalty #Queens #Claims

Hey, I liked my idea of bringer her along, but you already vetoed that idea, so now I'm resorting to Plan B, which is to interrogate her. And I am really looking forward to it. I used to play a game called interrogation with one of my old girlfriends where we-" "That's enough." Cinder raised her hand, silencing him.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Girlfriend #Hands #Games

Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said Wolf, tossing away his bone. "I'm only making conversation." "I'd prefer silence," Wolf said, a growl in his tone.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Names #Giving #Parent

If you were a gentleman, you would offer to buy me one as well." "If you were a lady, you would have waited for me to make the offer.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Gentleman #Wells #Offers

Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Cameras #Prison #Looking Good

Clearing his throat, Kai murmured, "You have no idea how to dance, do you?" Cinder fixed her gaze on him, mind still reeling. "I'm a mechanic." His eyebrows raised mockingly. "Believe me, I noticed. Are those grease stains on the gloves I gave you?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Believe #Eyebrows #Ideas

I'm going to escape now.
-- Marissa Meyer

Amusement touched the corner of his lips. "Animals love me." "Oh, I'm sure they do," Scarlet said, beaming with fake encouragement. She shut the door before muttering, "What farm animals don't love a wolf?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Encouragement #Animal #Doors

A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing to listen. Scarlet had heard wild wolves before, prowling the countryside in search of easy prey on the farms. But never had a wolf's howl send a chill down her spine like that.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Night #Air #Cities

I just think we shouldn't judge her, or anyone, without tryo g to understand them first. That maybe we should get the full story before jumping to conclusions. Crazy notion, I know.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Crazy #Thinking #Jumping

It would be easy to abuse a person when they never recognized it as abuse.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Abuse #Would Be #Easy

No. She will never be queen.” She swayed toward him, and he felt like he was being encircled by a python, smothered and choked.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Queens #Python

If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Believe #Gun #Said

Regarding Her Majesty, Queen Levana, has she or any of the Lunar court commented on the escape of the convict?" Kai's jaw tensed. "Oh, she's had a thing or two to say about it.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Queens #Two #Majesty

He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Talking #Ships

Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?
-- Marissa Meyer

#Hands #Light #Darkness

Scarlet and Wolf are saying gushy things in the galley," Iko said. "Normally I like gushy things, but its different when its real people. I prefer the net dramas.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Real #Drama #People

I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Relevant #Cyborg

Emilie. A beautiful name for a beautiful girl.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Beautiful #Girl #Names

We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Lying #Giving #Long

But you're the only one, Scarlet. You'll always be the only one.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Scarlet

Sybil tells me your little festival is an annual occurrence," she said, the cadence of her voice swooning like a lullaby. "Yes," Kai said, lifting a shrimp wonton between his chopsticks. "It falls on the ninth full moon if each year." "Ah, how lovely for you to base your holidays on the cycles of my planet." Kai wanted to scoff at the word planet but sucked it back down his throat.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Fall #Holiday #Moon

The queen's eyes smouldered. "I know my own kind when I see them, and right now there is one in these city walls." She pointed a finger toward the balcony."I want her found and brought to me." "Right," said Kai,"that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Queens #Wall #Eye

The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics
-- Marissa Meyer

#Moon #White #Snow

The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Sahara #Charity #Desert

Did you know that she was cyborg?” asked a woman in an unhidden tone of disgust. Kai stared at her, appearing confused, then let his gaze dance over the crowd. He shuffled his feet closer to the podium, a wrinkle forming on the bridge of his nose. Cinder bit the inside of her cheek and braced herself for adamant disgust. Who would ever invite a cyborg to the ball? But instead, Kai said simply, “I don’t see that her being cyborg is relevant. Next question?” Cinder’s metal fingers jolted.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Confused #Wrinkles #Bridges

I'm not sure I would label it a 'survivor,'" said Iko, her sensor darkening with disgust. "It looks more like a rotting pumpkin.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Labels #Looks #Rotting

Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Wind #Mind #Movement

The better to eat you with, my dear.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Dear

Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Littles #Red #Would Be

She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Animal #Wicked #Not Afraid

I think it was hiding a princess.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Princess #Thinking #Hiding

A captain always knows where his ship is. It's like a psychic bond." "If only we had a captain here.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Psychics #Ships #Captains

A relieved grin filled up Thorne’s face. “We’re having another moment, aren’t we?” “If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Mean #Faces #Firsts

But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a broken arm, after her first youthfull heartbreak. You'll be fine, because you're strong, like me.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Strong #Grandmother #Thinking

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.
-- Marissa Meyer

#Clouds #Hands #Keyboards