26 quotes
If people don’t leave a hole in your life when they are gone, Consuela, they were never in your life at all.
Melodies of the Heart (1994)
The nag is as fat as a monk—and will stop to eat at every chance, so the resemblance is no happenstance.
Eifelheim (2006)
He dyed his hair with great art, maintaining enough gray to suggest wisdom, but not so much as to suggest age.
Eifelheim (2006)
No field of knowledge is so transparently simple as another’s.
Eifelheim (2006)
One does not debate nature; one experiences nature.
Eifelheim (2006)
As often happens, fear showed itself in hostility.
Eifelheim (2006)
He believed because he wanted to believe. And that, too, is madness.
The Forest of Time (1987)
The philosophy of the likelihood of events concludes that folk from different worlds must have different forms.
Eifelheim (2006)
But scouts, he told himself firmly, must observe what is, not what they wish to see.
The Forest of Time (1987)
Sometimes the obvious is only wishful thinking.
Eifelheim (2006)
You have a grim taste in miracles, my friend.
Eifelheim (2006)
Brilliance cannot improvise on faulty data.
The Forest of Time (1987)
Responsibility is a rare thing in any case: a bastard child, often denied.
This was an omen for sure, but one with no obvious meaning.
The Forest of Time (1987)
“I know my equations are true,” she mused aloud. “I need to know if they are fact.”
Eifelheim (2006)
“You split hairs.”
“Better to split hairs than the heads beneath them.”
Eifelheim (2006)
He read the document a second time, but the words had not changed.
Eifelheim (2006)
Cigars were for talk; pipes for reflection.
The Forest of Time (1987)
“Men afraid may see demons in the familiar, and direct their fear of the insensible to a fear of the sensible.”
“Thought-lacking!”
“So it is; but it is what folk do.”
Eifelheim (2006)
He could not live again in Paris. It had seemed better then only because he had been younger, and had not yet known contentment.
Eifelheim (2006)