Irony of life Quote by Jo Walton

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

— Jo Walton

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's…

— Jo Walton

“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew…

— Jo Walton

“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes…

— Jo Walton

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

— Jo Walton

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My…

— Jo Walton

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real…

— Jo Walton

“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any…

— Jo Walton

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

— Jo Walton

“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about…

— Jo Walton

“Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most…

— Jo Walton

If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You…

— Jo Walton