335 quotes
How could I hurt her? She'd have to love me before I could do that.
Enchantment (1999)
I believe in everything that seems true to me right now. I just refuse to be surprised when some of those things I believe in now turn out to be false later.
Earthborn (1995)
Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
Treasure Box (1996)
While the guardians of “literary” fiction still give each other prizes and writers can still achieve stardom and create good work, the fact remains that it is a movement that has lost all its creative force as a movement.
If something just plain didn’t make sense to Alvin, he didn’t believe it, and no amount of quoting from the Bible would convince him. Now Taleswapper was telling him that he was right to refuse to believe things that made no sense.
Seventh Son (1987)
Alvin wondered if it was true—if all men had evil in their hearts, and those men as were good, maybe they were simply the ones who controlled theirselves so well they could act contrary to their heart's desire. But if that were so, then no man was good, not one.
Alvin Journeyman (1995)
What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.
Earthfall (1995)
You aren't the kind of guy who takes the law into his own hands. You left the law in other hands and it screwed you over pretty badly.
Homebody (1998)
You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
Earthfall (1995)
When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.
Hart's Hope (1983)
How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
Enchantment (1999)
If a father commands a son to commit a crime so terrible that the son can't do it and live with himself, then is it betrayal for the son to disobey his father?
Earthborn (1995)
Before the story he refused to even think about it; after the story, it became conceivable to him, and, once he could conceive of it, it soon became inevitable.
Enchantment (1999)
Love is random; fear is inevitable.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.
Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)
If there's no place in the universe for a man to resist the thieves of freedom and still be called a good man, then I don't think there is any good or evil in the universe.
Treason (1988)
“You,” said Purity, “have been long enough out of England to pick up some American brag.”
“But surrounded by Americans as I am,” said Cooper, “my brag is like a farthing in a sack of guineas.”
Heartfire (1998)
Why give you answers you wont believe?
Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
Treasure Box (1996)
Maybe he's growing up.
Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
The Ships Of Earth (1994)
She thinks she's kept me. She would have kept me better if she had let me go now.
Songmaster (1979)