Vera Nazarian

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

— Vera Nazarian

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

— Vera Nazarian

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

— Vera Nazarian

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

— Vera Nazarian

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

— Vera Nazarian

Freedom is not a license to act but a license to exercise free choices in any given situation.

— Vera Nazarian

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

— Vera Nazarian

Here's a new 'Blessing' for our time -- 'May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

— Vera Nazarian

Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of…

— Vera Nazarian

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a…

— Vera Nazarian

The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it.

— Vera Nazarian

One of the things that I've noticed over the years is that I seem to be fascinated as a writer with the…

— Vera Nazarian

Because without such a reprieve we cannot pause and regroup and with the newfound strength go on to initiate that very change…

— Vera Nazarian

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

— Vera Nazarian

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take…

— Vera Nazarian

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If…

— Vera Nazarian

Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear,…

— Vera Nazarian

Some writers whom I respect very much, like China Miéville and some others of the New Weird, consider the true role of…

— Vera Nazarian

The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.If…

— Vera Nazarian

Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very…

— Vera Nazarian

Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But…

— Vera Nazarian

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels. If you stand…

— Vera Nazarian

“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards…

— Vera Nazarian

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days…

— Vera Nazarian

It is right here, all of it, here for the taking, right before our eyes - happiness, fulfillment, hope, peace, justice. And…

— Vera Nazarian

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only…

— Vera Nazarian

“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards…

— Vera Nazarian

“On the late afternoon streets, everyone hurries along, going about their own business. Who is the person walking in front of you…

— Vera Nazarian

“Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it? Karma is not an inviolate engine…

— Vera Nazarian

“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly…

— Vera Nazarian

“Meditation is a mysterious method of self-restoration. It involves “shutting” out the outside world, and by that means sensing the universal “presence”…

— Vera Nazarian

“It is a peculiar monthly Affliction inducing them [the men of Regency England] to take on various unnatural shapes—neither quite demon, nor…

— Vera Nazarian

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

— Vera Nazarian

Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

— Vera Nazarian

I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

— Vera Nazarian

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

— Vera Nazarian

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.

— Vera Nazarian

For as long as there's anyone to ask 'Why?' the answer will always be, 'Why not?

— Vera Nazarian

I think I became [writer] despite myself - tricking myself into it, really.

— Vera Nazarian

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.

— Vera Nazarian