254 quotes
I trusted him as far as I could kick him up a chimney.
Necromancer Nine (1983)
All men believed they had their own magics in bed.
Grass (1989)
We are to be needed, but I'm not sure for what.
The Visitor (2002)
The extent of my ignorance oppresses me.
The Gate to Women's Country (1988)
Eugenie thought of this often. Men had told her many sweet things about herself, but never before that she was important. It was the nicest compliment she had ever received.
Grass (1989)
Despite his concern, he was not so out of control as to forget that a frantic man is a careless man, a lesson every soldier learns soon or dies wishing he had learned sooner.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.
Grass (1989)
Old gods sometimes do that in their retirement. They become galactic social workers, self-appointed do-gooders.
The Margarets (2007)
We have a saying, we Gharm. A man who claims to carry the truth, carries an empty sack.
Raising the Stones (1990)
Some can see no farther than their mirrors. What wears another face must go unseen.
Shadow's End (1994)
The place displayed luxury without comfort, ostentation without art. I hated it.
The Margarets (2007)
“Sit down, Grandma,” Glory urged. “You’re very pale. This is all very weird and strange, and you’re allergic to strange.”
The Margarets (2007)
Perhaps my cynicism comes in good time. Better I have it early than too late.
Singer from the Sea (1999)
Mother, though of Gamesman caste, seemed to have no Talent of any kind. She was so beautiful she did not need to be anything else.
Jinian Footseer (1985)
You have not reared him to care what others do, or think, or say. How then should he care for education, for is that not the study of what others care about?
The Song of Mavin Manyshaped (1985)
As the Gauphin taught, people are ridiculous! We have language and history, we have technology and philosophy, and we still have not achieved good sense and self-control!
Shadow's End (1994)
To my mind, the expression of divinity is in variety, and the more variable the creation, the more variable the creatures that surround us, botanical and zoological, the more chance we have to learn and to see into life itself, nature itself.
The sergeant was braver than most, and stupider—the two qualities often going hand in hand.
The Visitor (2002)
Oh, didn't I know it's the best we can do, sometimes, simply not to wish our children ill.
Beauty (1991)
Every time I began to take myself seriously, he let me know how small a vegetable I was in his particular stew.
Necromancer Nine (1983)