“Pass the time?” said the Queen. “Books are not about passing the time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, Sir Kevin, one just wishes one had more of it....

Everyone doesn't have to do everything... People forget you can also express yourself by what you choose to admire and support. I've had so much pleasure from beautiful and challenging things created...

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there's always got to be some of it to keep them going.

Justine watched two azure moons traverse the sparkling smear of Wall stars. They were in very strange orbits. And moving impossibly fast – actually accelerating. 'Oh my God,' she gasped. The Raiel's...

"That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty."

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before John Owen

I looked at her and sighed. In another world, I thought to myself, it might have worked. In another world, in another universe, in another time, as two quite different people, we really might have...

Burrich the Stablemaster, the man who raised me, once warned me, "When you cut pieces from the truth to avoid sounding like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead." I

One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

It was all in your mind, Chade told me sometime later, and it stung that he dismissed so lightly all that I had endured. All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take...

When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?

I think Zar learned his lesson. Once burned, twice reserved. Hmf. Once laid down, always hungry would be a better saying for this case.

Nothing is really lost. Shapes change. But it's never completely gone.

I floated. I had been part of something immense, but now I was torn loose. Broken away from the great purpose that had used me as a conduit. Useless. Again.

Refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

Having something explained to you does not always solve it.

None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, then you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.

The art of diplomacy is the luck of knowing more of your rival's secrets than he knows of yours.

I could be truly happy in a house full of enemies, if I had only one friend who loved me sincerely, deeply, and loyally.

Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which...

Because I'm pretty sure we conceived this child the night I ate that pot cookie. I'm eighty - four percent positive our child is going to be born a pot head. It's going to come out with dreadlocks and...

That she now had a kind of uniform and a set of tools made everything that much easier and much less about her particular feelings, for tasks requiring clothes and accoutrements were by definition...

Good. Because we were thinking of a place kind of like this one in Oregon. Atticus had already told his attorney, Hal Hauk, to find a suitable place near or in the Willamette Valley.

I promptly forgot about him and prepared a blend of Creativi - Tea, since I had some fantasy role - players coming in for their weekly dungeon crawl, and the DM always wanted a little something extra...

Well, if that's how it happened, I don't like how Etain was never given a choice. Both Midhir and Eochaid should have been kicked in the marble bag for behaving like her hoo - ha was something they...

Helgarson won't tell me, but it must have been bad. His fangs pop out if you just say 'Thor' aloud, and he hunts carpenters simply because they use hammers.

Now, I will be the first to admit that human life was not worth much to my generation in the Iron Age, but Flidais and her kind are forever rooted in Bronze Age morality, which goes something like...

When at the typewriter I am no longer where I sit but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains among the buffalo. Often I think of what pitiful fools are those who use...

The entire rationale for fighting in Vietnam was rooted in faith. Faith that his elected leaders and military bosses knew what they were doing and that the calculation that had placed his life at such...