“From them her hands moved on, random as her passing thoughts. She sketched vagrant airs, or snatches of jigs and reels, slowed and touched with the shadow of an inevitable grief that waited in the hidden darkness of future time.… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.” — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“ 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 Copy Share Image
The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else. — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
