Block Quote by 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 a grey…

— 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 it until…

— Isobelle Carmody

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

— Isobelle Carmody

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

— Isobelle Carmody

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

— Isobelle Carmody

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

— 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 to each…

— Isobelle Carmody