Molly Ringle Quotes

And I got out of there without punching anyone, kicking anyone, or breaking down in tears. Some days the small victories are all you achieve.

~ Molly Ringle

She re-read his email four times, feeling offended and breathless, like he had casually grabbed her head and stuffed it into a pile of wet leaves.

~ Molly Ringle

I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel.

~ Molly Ringle

It had to unleash some invisible magic, he thought; Hades and Persephone, joining together again within these black and holy stone walls, for the first time in millennia. As they indulged in enjoying one another, how could they not be reactivating some power within the Earth itself? Surely they were at least bringing autumn storm clouds rolling and thundering over the Mediterranean.But probably every boy felt that way when finally in bed caressing the girl he loved.

~ Molly Ringle

Niko popped a spare slice of bacon in his mouth, chewing it up contentedly. “I hate being a soul, being dead. You know what I hate most about it?”“No sex?” Sophie guessed.“That’s what I hate second most about it. No, what I hate most is—”“That you can’t lie,” Adrian cut in.Niko lifted his eyebrows at him, impressed. “You do know me. Exactly right.”“And no bacon,” Freya added.

~ Molly Ringle

Ah, mate. My soul loves yours. It does. But this lifetime, my body won’t get on board.

~ Molly Ringle

Did you call me here just to deliver this monologue? Did I need to be here?

~ Molly Ringle

Yes, he knew it was crazy to be this obsessed over an encounter that had taken up maybe sixty seconds of his life. (Or had it been an hour and sixty seconds?) But what an encounter. His fingers still felt the bones and flesh through her sweater, his tongue still tasted her mysterious bitter-greens mouth, her voice still haunted him with that whispered 'Help me.

~ Molly Ringle

Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.

~ Molly Ringle

You will come to the woods and choose your mate.

~ Molly Ringle

No, her I brought back because... Niko lifted his chin toward the moon. She's magical.I get that, if by 'magical' you mean 'hot.'I also mean magical.

~ Molly Ringle

Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades to come to it.Hades wandered across the fields with him, Kerberos limping along at his side. “No one wants the god of death at their fertility festival.”“Sure they do. I’ve heard plenty of girls sighing over your tasty darkness.”“Tasty darkness. Really.

~ Molly Ringle

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

~ Molly Ringle

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today.

~ Molly Ringle

But the thought of New Zealand instantly sent her mind to Watson, the possibly-Australian, possibly-Kiwi, definitely paranormal young fellow with videos of dead guys on his phone.

~ Molly Ringle

I've given her signs! I've given her plenty of signs. What does she want me to do? Slap him across the face with my glove, and challenge him to pistols at dawn?

~ Molly Ringle

So we came to say hello. To the world’s grouchiest person. Because that’s such fun.

~ Molly Ringle

Enjoying your Christmas in the land of the dead? Fun and different, right?

~ Molly Ringle

And he had a dog, a nice dog. He couldn’t be too evil or dangerous if he had such a great dog.

~ Molly Ringle

Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus—woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.

~ Molly Ringle

Did I mention really, really jealous.

~ Molly Ringle

College isn't half as much fun as they told us it was going to be.It's not one-hundredth as much fun.

~ Molly Ringle

Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and hands marked up with thorn scratches.

~ Molly Ringle

She knew nothing of Ren except his name, his aptitude with vocabulary, the fact that he wasn’t in college, and the way his hair narrowed to a curling point at the nape of his neck. And she hadn’t even realized she knew that last thing until now.

~ Molly Ringle

You're lucky I'm drawn to things that are sick and weird. Makes it so I can actually still like you.

~ Molly Ringle

Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.

~ Molly Ringle