Robert Jackson Bennett

“After all, deep in every Texan’s heart, there remains the steadfast belief that any problem can be solved with a big enough…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“My definition of an adult is someone who lives their life aware they are sharing the world with others. My definition of…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“I am lost among the seas of fate and time But at least I have love.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“One should not seek ugliness in this world. There is no lack of it. You will find it soon enough, or it…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them,…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“We are—or were —Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beliefs of a people. But that which…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“I put my office right in the middle of the death they threaten us with. [...] here I sit, every day, hanging…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“The city knows. It remembers. Its past is written in its bones, though the past now speaks in silences.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“My first question is- do you have a name ? "A name? Yes." "Ah!" said the wolf. It wrote several extensive notes.…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“It is a fool who lives his life believing the waves upon which he sails shall remember him. The seas know nothing.…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was ever a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“To see her smile in such a manner makes my heart glad - Sigrud Well, goody for your fucking heart! -Mulaghesh”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“Wishing is bad,” he said again. “It makes you hurt. Makes all the missing parts hurt, makes them open up new and…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“Change is a slow flower to bloom. Most of us will not see its full radiance. We plant it not for ourselves,…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“It's not a cry of grief, she finds, nor one of pain or loss or sorrow; rather, its a shout of triumph,…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“A 6-inch cannon. I've only ever seen those on a Saypuri dreadnought... And it looks like they have, or expect to have,…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“And then he understands: it’s a loop, an endless loop of injured children, growing old but keeping their pain fresh and new,…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“We don't get to choose many things. What happens to us, if we live or die, or who we love. But we…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“I know vaudeville isn't supposed to be art . It's supposed to be entertainment, which is different. But I think art...I think…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“ And Olvos said to them: “Why have you done this, my children? Why is the sky wreathed with smoke? Why have…

— Robert Jackson Bennett