Isobelle Carmody Quotes

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

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 life.

Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.

Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.

Maruman does not loll.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.

If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.

She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries, ' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.

I heard you laughing, ' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.

Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings

Never trust a mirror, ' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.