Character Quotes by Laura Anne Gilman

“You could not choose where your heart went. You could only suffer the consequences.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Being in a room with that many people was starting to make me itch.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

— Laura Anne Gilman

Call it not paranoia, but caution.

— Laura Anne Gilman

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

— Laura Anne Gilman

“There is very little bad from which good cannot be pressed.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“You couldn't get that much under someone's skin, that much in their blood, and not know exactly how to hurt them, even without trying.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

“Nothing was ever wasted, and nothing was learned in vain.”

— Laura Anne Gilman

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

— Laura Anne Gilman

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

— Laura Anne Gilman

“You planned as much as you could, then you tap-danced like mad.”

— Laura Anne Gilman