Stardust Quotes

"The chain? It binds me to the stall. I am the personal slave of the witch-woman who owns the stall. She caught me many years ago […] luring me on and on in the form of a pretty frog always but a...

The old man pulled free of his sons, and stood straight and tall, then. He was, for a heartbeat, the lord of Stormhold who had defeated the Northern Goblins at the battle of Cragland's Head; who ha...

The wind blew from Faerie and the East, and Tristran Thorn suddenly found inside himself a certain amount of courage he had not suspected that he had possessed. (2.44)

The guard is relaxed once every nine years, on May Day, when a fair comes to the meadow. (1.17)

Tristran Thorn, at the age of seventeen, and only six months older than Victoria, was halfway between a boy and a man, and was equally uncomfortable in either role; he seemed to be composed chiefly...

"I should not mind it, for it a long, long chain; but the knowledge of it irks me, and I miss my father's land." (1.187)

"So, it would be miracles and wonders that you would be after, is it?" (1.69)

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire. (1.1)