Nutcracker Quotes

“The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I can see why they named that ballet the Nutcracker. It’s gotta hurt having ‘em crushed in something that tight.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Face-Off

“For when the world was darkest, I remembered you.”
― Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

“This is, indeed, a place where magic happens…”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address, no surname. No one to impress, nothing to lose. But the poor tell stories, too.”
― Gregory Maguire, Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

“It became legend that no one should wander too close to the sorceress's enchanted forest or she would send forth a blizzard, causing them to lose their way and be caught in the land of ice and snow for all time.”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“Why Do Fairies Let Bad Things Happen to Good People?”
― Heather Dixon Wallwork, The Enchanted Sonata

“How many times in a life, he thought, will I lie down in a darkness whose character I cannot imagine, to see what daybreak reveals of my new circumstances? Or is that every day of my life?”
― Gregory Maguire, Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

“Oh!” exclaimed Marie at last, “who does the charming little fellow in the tree belong to, dearest Papa?”
“He should work hard for all of you, dear child,” her father replied. “He can bite the hardest of nuts and crack them open for you, and he belongs to Luise as much as to you and Fritz.”
― E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Nutcracker and The Mouse King

“Perhaps, instead of accusing destiny, the king should have remembered that, as is generally the case with mankind, he was the author of his own misfortunes...”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Nutcracker

“Oh, fairling,” he breathed, “you light up the dark.”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t half of the time.”
― Amanda V. Shane, Snow Maiden

“Who could have thought that anyone would love a hideous nutcracker?”
― Marian H. Rowe, Drosselmeyer's Dream: A Nutcracker Retelling

“The entire time Tchaikovsky was composing 'The Nutcracker,' Madame Sylvie told Dara once, he was mourning his beloved sister Sasha. He reanimated her through Clara. It explained the strange heaviness of the ballet, its grand melancholy, its piercing nostalgia. And the deathlessness of its vision of childhood, of innocence and escape. Our almost unbearable awareness that everything we're seeing is disappearing even as we watch, fluttering past us as the dancers do, slipping away like smoke.

Every year, when the grand -pas de deux- -- the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince--begins, the audience's eyes fill with tears. Those shimmering sound of the celesta, like bells clear and pure, and we are flung backward. Time is conquered for a brief, luminous moment. Dara remembered one parent telling her that prayers from the Russian funeral mass were hidden in its opening bars. -We don't hear it-, he told her. -But we feel it nonetheless.-”
― Megan Abbott, The Turnout

“No longer feeling shy, Clara took his hand and rested the other on his arm. To the slow strains of a waltz, they circled the hall, their shadows mimicking the moves on the papered and garland walls.”
― Naomi McCullough, The Nutcracker Spell

“What was I supposed to say to that? If I added my agreement, I could easily be punished as a traitor to the crown. Perhaps that is why so many girls had already been relieved of this position. Alice could be testing their allegiance to her wicked father.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“If she were truly so kind, why did everyone say she was so cruel? I must always be on guard around this girl. There was something going on here and I wasn't sure what.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“Careful ma'am. Talk like that leads to the dungeon for being a traitor to the crown."

"I am the crown! Is my father already gone?"

"Aye. He left not twenty minutes ago." The server replied.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“Alice." I sighed. She glared at me. Could I truly trust this girl? "I didn't know if I could trust you. The throne will be yours, you know."

"I don't want the throne! It's so much work and pressure. I just want to be free to lead my own life."

"Then, let's try and warn Peter.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“Okay, fine but when we sneak out, I'm going too. You don't get to have all the fun."

"Fun? I'm scared to death . . .”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“Squirrel!" She giggled. "Oh dear. I couldn't even imagine. I am heading to the kitchen straight away to save us from that terrible misfortune.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“You know. I was thinking it should be the Sugar Plum Princess saving Peter not us." She giggled quietly.

"Sugar Plum Princess? I've never heard of her." I said in confusion.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“Good. I've been so worried about you. It took four days of searching to find you and when I did, your heart was barely beating. I thought you were going to die.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“My kingdom doesn't want me. They'd rather have that tyrant than me. I couldn't find the Sugar Plum Princess. I'm beginning to think she doesn't exist. My father was sure she did. That's why I have been searching still but I think it's time I admit defeat.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“I had a knife fixed in my dress in case I needed it but my hopes were to somehow manage this without getting blood on my hands. I'd prefer Peter get to make the ultimate decision of what to do with the Mouse King.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess