Changelings Quotes:

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.356, Penguin

topic: Fairy, Born, Changelings

I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.27, Xist Publishing

topic: Believe, Oddities, Perfect, Changelings, Villette

There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Winter, Mushrooms, World, Changelings, Hedgerows

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

- Loren Eiseley

topic: Dream, Reality, Age, Uncouth, Hissing

A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

- J. Michael Straczynski

topic: Children, Fighting, Supernatural Elements, Changelings

This Cruel Age has deflected me...

- Anna Akhmatova

topic: Age, Changelings

Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast, Or sorrow such a changeling be?

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2014). “In Memoriam”, p.54, Broadview Press

topic: Sorrow, Despair, Unrest, Changelings, Tenants

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “The pearl of Orr's Island”, Houghton Mifflin Co.

topic: Children, Parent, Fairy, Changelings

Blood for life. Life for life. Changeling justice.

- Nalini Singh

source: Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1035, Penguin

topic: Life Changing, Blood, Justice, Changelings

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

- Stephen King

topic: Thinking, Ghost Stories, Pieces, Changelings

Once— and most of the night definitely counts as once—you can write off as a mistake. But you do this again and he's going to start thinking he has rights over you.” She knew predatory changeling men. They liked control. They particularly liked their women to submit. And Riley was one big giant hunk of testosterone-fueled Neanderthal wolf—he probably thought her submission was his right. She snorted. “Not in this lifetime.

- Nalini Singh

source: Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.31, Penguin

topic: Mistake, Writing, Night, Neanderthals, Changelings

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

- Winifred Holtby

source: Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

topic: People, Mind, Body, Changelings

You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know in many ways that's enough for him and so, you go, ok, well, he saw something. Ok, what is it that he saw? What is it that I brought to this and why am I right for this and not trying to double-guess it and get in your own way and get psyched out, 'cause he trusts so much.

- Amy Ryan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Trying, Directors, Way, Changelings

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Jealous, Winning, Thinking, Changelings

...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own distant, hidden ranges, and all words become the dissolving snow that feeds your mountain streams forever. The language locks itself in the icy slopes of our own high passes, and it is up to us, the writers, to melt the glaciers within us. When these glaciers break off, we get to call them novels, the changelings of our burning spirits, our life's work.

- Pat Conroy

topic: Break Off, Rivers, Snow, Mountain Streams, Changelings

Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish all science fiction novels could be this good.

- Craig Shaw Gardner

topic: Stars, Book, Wish, Changelings, Characterization

She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch.

- Nalini Singh

topic: Cat, Hands, Skins, Bonding, Changelings