“The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.” — Barbara Hambly Every day 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… — Barbara Hambly Music Copy Share Image
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. — Barbara Hambly Book 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… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. — Barbara Hambly Driven 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 Cleaning 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… — Barbara Hambly Childhood 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… — Barbara Hambly Beauty Copy Share Image
The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. — Barbara Hambly Answers 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 Arms Copy Share Image
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else. — Barbara Hambly Boring Copy Share Image
“Of course I’m frivolous,” [Antryg] replied mildly. “You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.” — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick… — Barbara Hambly Main street Copy Share Image
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours. — Barbara Hambly Judged Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make… — Barbara Hambly Break 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… — Barbara Hambly Blues Copy Share Image
“The universe, it appeared, had never been kind to Captain Bortrek, conspiring against him in a fashion that Threepio privately considered unlikely… — Barbara Hambly Habits Copy Share Image
What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. — Barbara Hambly Hypothesis Copy Share Image
“Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one… — Barbara Hambly Fantasy Copy Share Image
“That’s the damn thing about falling in love with your second-in-command,” and resumed his stride up to the balcony with its row… — Barbara Hambly Falling in love Copy Share Image
“If the other novice wizards on the row hadn't broken into Raeshaldis's rooms, pissed on her bed and written WHORE and THIEF… — Barbara Hambly Fantasy-fiction Copy Share Image
“Then someone within closed the door, shutting Norah out into the howling dust of the night. The clouds parted briefly to reveal… — Barbara Hambly Closed The Door Copy Share Image
We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have… — Barbara Hambly Different Copy Share Image
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want… — Barbara Hambly Differences Copy Share Image
