Kathe Koja

You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass…

— Kathe Koja

“Tess felt for a moment that she might cry, coughed instead, a watery cough worse than a sob”

— Kathe Koja

“leading her away from the worktable to sit on the unmade couchbed, lumpy pillows, blankets humped sad and cold.”

— Kathe Koja

“As the invaders caught the villagers and tore into them, they made soothing, crooning noises that somehow drowned out the shrieking. They…

— Kathe Koja

“The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge.”

— Kathe Koja

I'm just going to jump and say:hey Mom, Dad, I'm gay, What's for dessert?

— Kathe Koja

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have…

— Kathe Koja

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

— Kathe Koja

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again,…

— Kathe Koja

“smile again, something older, colder than reptilian, cold as the oldest brain of all speaking, short wordless bursts, the back of the…

— Kathe Koja

“Recalling those gone times, old memories lit by the fire of the new, I did not this time wonder how long it…

— Kathe Koja

“She opened my closet door just the tiniest crack. So I could breathe.”

— Kathe Koja

“..."I know it is a trick, I mean a dupe, but still - Do you ever make him talk to you, alone?…

— Kathe Koja

“You can know something and never think about it, if you’re any good at it. Me, now, I’ve been avoiding so much…

— Kathe Koja

Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?

— Kathe Koja

“I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send…

— Kathe Koja

“In history, in a movie, in a book, you can always tell who the heroes are; they're the ones rushing into a…

— Kathe Koja

“I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the…

— Kathe Koja

“The worst wounds are internal, I should have known that from my own experience, but I’m the type of guy who doesn’t…

— Kathe Koja

“[Lindsay] But I don't want to think about all that now, Boring Blake and his broken heart which is really his deflated…

— Kathe Koja

“Do you know the concept of karma? It’s kind of like a circle, or cause-and-effect, like a slow-tolling bell you rang maybe…

— Kathe Koja

“Gone as usual in the morning, and me left behind and naked, inner thighs lightly scaled with the dried spoor of our…

— Kathe Koja

“and wasn’t rust growth, of a kind? the growth of decay? If you don’t grow, you die;”

— Kathe Koja

“In his comfortable coffin, face veiled in dark silk, eyes open or closed, Pan Loudermilk lies waiting, a player from a tribe…

— Kathe Koja