254 quotes
“Better late than not at all,” came a voice from the ranked multitude. “Better a tardy lover than a lonely bed.”
Dervish Daughter (1986)
He did a lot of disputation and he always raised his voice when his logic was weak.
Grass (1989)
What he’d said wasn’t inaccurate; it was simply a ridiculous understatement.
Shadow's End (1994)
Disillusionment, pain, unpleasant surprise, all were part of growing up.
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988)
As our sages have said, youth builds a universe with self at the center.
The Fresco (2000)
So I learned that people may be kind enough while not caring a rather.
King's Blood Four (1983)
Think of that, Joziré! A court dedicated to pure justice, one that can overrule the law! They didn’t even have one of those back on old Earth!
The Margarets (2007)
One of the difficulties of being the good guys is that even open societies have to have secret police, and secret police turn toward repression as a compass points north.
Gibbon's Decline & Fall (1996)
“There’s a lot of fathering in those legends,” Sal commented, disapprovingly. “A lot of fathering, a lot of kinging, a lot of death and violence, and very little uncleing and ordinary kindly living.”
Raising the Stones (1990)
Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!
Grass (1989)
Rich people didn’t get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws passed by people who broke them with impunity.
Grass (1989)
Fairy things don’t impress cats. Fairy things and holy things. Cats are, perhaps, a separate creation.
Beauty (1991)
He rejoices to have done with the dead. The living need our attentions more, he says. Who can argue with that?
Jinian Star-Eye (1986)
It was her way to start each conversation with an apology, so she could be offended when the apology was accepted.
Raising the Stones (1990)
She was trying to feel philosophical about dying, not managing it, trying not to be frightened, and not managing that, either.
Grass (1989)
What was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened.
Marianne, the Madame, and the Momentary Gods (1988)
Sex was pleasurable, sure, but survival was sweeter still.
Shadow's End (1994)
They still begin their services with the first words the prophetess had spoken to them as a teaching. “This I say unto you, be not sexist pigs.”
Raising the Stones (1990)
The Ultimate Destiny of Man is to stop being only man.
Sideshow (1992)
He calls it the university of the Real One, and it teaches only things that are known to be true, which means it is largely devoted to mathematics and sciences.
The Visitor (2002)