Lisa Mantchev Quotes

Could we wear spandex and blow things up?

~ Lisa Mantchev

The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.

~ Lisa Mantchev

The Brigands charged in with their weapons drawn.Who are you? Young Bertie asked.We're the bad guys! their leader announced.What are you going to do?Plunder and pillage! one of them yelled.The others immediately shoved him. Not in front of the kid, Ralph! Fer cryin' out loud...Oh, yeah. Sorry! We're here to take your candy!

~ Lisa Mantchev

Ariel laughed and now her goose bumps had goose bumps.

~ Lisa Mantchev

A cupcake temple?' Her chest still tight with anxiety, Bertie forced herself to imagine it: bricks of pound cake mortared with buttercream and chocolate ganache, torches like striped birthday candles set into the walls, pilgrims upon the Path of Delectable Righteousness delivering daily tributes of almond paste and raspberry filling. . . .

~ Lisa Mantchev

When everything else crumbles to dust, all we have left are the memories. I thought of Ophelia, wandering the theater, mind half gone...Never shall I cut from memory my sweet love's beauty.

~ Lisa Mantchev

If you wanted to play with fire, milady, you could have simply asked me for a kiss or three.

~ Lisa Mantchev

The collar had restrained his winds but not killed them. They uncoiled from behind the shadows, ready to surround her, to lift her up, to carry her away with only Ariel’s silk-clad arms wrapped about her to keep her from fa

~ Lisa Mantchev

The water and the wind will wear the wood down, until only water and wind remain.

~ Lisa Mantchev

What's past is prologue, and the world awaits.

~ Lisa Mantchev

I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than I survived it.

~ Lisa Mantchev

Shh,” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.

~ Lisa Mantchev