I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to…

“The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.”

— Barbara Hambly

“From them her hands moved on, random as her passing thoughts. She sketched vagrant airs, or snatches of jigs and reels, slowed and touched…

— Barbara Hambly

You narrow hope when you define it...

— Barbara Hambly

“To the pure, all things are pure,” Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus’ best soothsayer voice, “and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.”

— Barbara Hambly

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

— Barbara Hambly

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

— Barbara Hambly

“Only a fool wants to go back to the land of childhood . . . Or perhaps it is the longing for the certainties of childhood that…

— Barbara Hambly

“ If I don't read page ninety, it won't have happened to them. Black Beauty will still live with all his friends at Birtwick…

— Barbara Hambly

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

— Barbara Hambly

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

— Barbara Hambly

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

— Barbara Hambly

“Of course I’m frivolous,” [Antryg] replied mildly. “You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.”

— Barbara Hambly

“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared…

— Barbara Hambly

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

— Barbara Hambly

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've…

— Barbara Hambly