Diane Duane Quotes

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• Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!
• So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!
• But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
• You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink!
• If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private,…
• Belief made no difference to the truth.
• The Spear in the Other’s heart is the spear in your own: you are he.
• I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.
• My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
• Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
• What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing…
• What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think…
• The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point…
• Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.
• Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of…
• Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true... it's like a spell. You…
• And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea…
• You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe…
• Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you need a hug.…
• Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to…

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