If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“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 those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you snapped your fingers and produced a rose but it was because someone on an aeroplane had dropped a rose at just the right time… — Jo Walton Copy Share
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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“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 it, it will be wonderful, it will be exciting and layered and complex and I will be excited by it, and I will re-read it every year or so for the rest of my life, discovering… — Jo Walton Copy Share
“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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
