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> [“What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn’t we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/what-i-want-is-much-more-complicated-i-want-somebody-i-can-talk-to/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

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> [“I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing." What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-m-not-sure-i-ever-want-to-get-married-i-m-neither-messing-around/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

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## More by Jo Walton

> [I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-care-more-about-the-people-in-books-than-the-people-i-see-every-day/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/class-is-entirely-intangible-and-the-way-it-affects-things-isn-t/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-figured-it-out-this-afternoon-when-they-let-me-take-a-walk-around/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/you-can-almost-always-find-chains-of-coincidence-to-disprove-magic/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/you-can-t-do-magic-with-books-unless-they-re-very-special-copies/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/reading-is-awesome-and-flexible-and-fits-around-chores-and-earning/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/you-know-class-is-like-magic-there-s-nothing-there-you-can-point-to/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/the-thing-with-dying-well-with-death-really-is-that-there-s-a/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/it-s-amazing-how-large-the-things-are-that-it-s-possible-to-overlook/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/my-ideal-relationship-with-a-book-is-that-i-will-read-it-for-the/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [“Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/anyway-while-most-people-can-t-see-fairies-anyway-because-they-don-t/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/aujourd-hui-rien-that-s-what-louis-xvi-wrote-in-his-diary-on-the-day/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/if-the-purpose-of-literature-is-to-illuminate-human-nature-the/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who re-read and those who don’t. No, don’t be silly, there are far more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world-those-who-re-read-and/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

> [There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/there-may-be-stranger-reasons-for-being-alive-there-are-books-there-s/)

[Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/)

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