Barbara Hambly Quotes

• ...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.

  Barbara Hambly

  Butterfly, Hands, Giving

  Barbara Hambly (1999). “Winterlands”, Del Rey

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• I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

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  Book, Shining, Retreat

  Barbara Hambly (2011). “Bride of the Rat God”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

  Barbara Hambly

  Answers, Want, Enough

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• We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

  Barbara Hambly

  People, Different, Stage

  Charlaine Harris, Maggie Shayne, Barbara Hambly (2012). “Night's Edge: Dancers in the Dark\Her Best Enemy\Someone Else's Shadow”, p.257, Harlequin

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• What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

  Barbara Hambly

  Temptation, Wizards, Hypothesis

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• As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

  Barbara Hambly

  Cleaning, Lifetime, Footwear

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• I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

  Barbara Hambly

  Fields, Impossible, Making Money

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• One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

  Barbara Hambly

  Fear, Arms, Oneself

  Barbara Hambly (2011). “Bride of the Rat God”, p.42, Open Road Media

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• You narrow hope when you define it.

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  Barbara Hambly (2011). “The Time of the Dark”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

  Barbara Hambly

  Boring, Gravity, Know How

  Barbara Hambly (2011). “The Silent Tower”, p.66, Open Road Media

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• Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

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  Imagination, Progress, Driven

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• God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

  Barbara Hambly

  Privilege, Judged

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• Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.

  Barbara Hambly

  Running, Differences, Wizards

  Barbara Hambly (1987). “The Witches of Wenshar”, Del Rey

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