Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
I'm insatiably curious.
Garden work clears the mind.
Love not often, but forever.
A named thing is a tamed thing.
A thing named is a thing tamed.
I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
I think everybody has a secret life.
Anything that can be dreamed is true.
I carried recipes in my head like maps.
I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
The process of giving is without limits.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki
I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
The wind always brings us back to the same wall
I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.
Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.
I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.
I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.
I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.
I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.
Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.
Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
