Isobelle Carmody

“We were passing the city cemetery. Adjoining it was a field occupied only by a couple of amiable and moth-eaten horses, and…

— Isobelle Carmody

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

— Isobelle Carmody

Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at…

— Isobelle Carmody

My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership,…

— Isobelle Carmody

The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a…

— Isobelle Carmody

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a…

— Isobelle Carmody

“And, for a moment, doubt flickered in me, but then I banished it, for surely nothing required courage so much as love,…

— Isobelle Carmody

“Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a…

— Isobelle Carmody

Maruman does not loll.

— Isobelle Carmody

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

— Isobelle Carmody

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

— Isobelle Carmody

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

— Isobelle Carmody

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted…

— Isobelle Carmody

“What's your name?' 'Names!' she sniffed, rolling her eyes. 'People always want names, don't they? They're mad about naming. I will let…

— Isobelle Carmody

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

— Isobelle Carmody

“You must not let me out,' it warned him gently, as it saw his eyes rest on the lock. 'If you release…

— Isobelle Carmody

“Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings”

— Isobelle Carmody

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than…

— Isobelle Carmody

The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior.…

— Isobelle Carmody

Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile…

— Isobelle Carmody

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

— Isobelle Carmody

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

— Isobelle Carmody

“Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us.…

— Isobelle Carmody

“Alice's eyes fell to the bundle she carried. But she only said, 'People from the other side of the mirror want to…

— Isobelle Carmody

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

— Isobelle Carmody