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  1. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now."" The flower dies," Jenny said softly, "having lived. The diamond will never do either.
    book-quotelovelifediamond

  2. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    Pitiful, puling, like all your kin the slave of time that rots the body before the mind has seen more than a single flower in all the meadows of the Cosmos.
    book-quotemortalityhumanity

  3. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    Holding his icy hands, she slid for a moment into the outer fringes of the healing trance and whispered to him by his inner name. But it was as if she called at the head of a descending trail along which he had long since passed-there was no answer.
    book-quotehealing

  4. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.
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  5. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands.
    book-quotepowerperspective

  6. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    Jenny froze...cut by an unexpected pang of a hot jealousy she had thought that she had long outgrown-the bitter jealousy of her youth toward those who had greater skills than she. All her life she had worked to rid herself of it, knowing it crippled her from learning from those more powerful.
    book-quotejealousy

  7. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great-it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking. Knowledge-power-to know what songs the stars sing; to center all the forces of creation upon a rune drawn in the air-we can never give over the seeking of it. It is the stuff of loneliness.
    book-quoteknowledgepower

  8. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great-it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking.
    book-quotepower

  9. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    Maggots from meat,'" quoted John, "'weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky.
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  10. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.
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  11. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death.
    book-quotepowerlessness

  12. Barbara Hambly _ Dragonsbane

    She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.
    book-quoteinsecurity
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