Jo Walton Quotes

Each day's dawn is a sweet symphony and as long as I hear the music, my dreams will have to die another day.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

Life is a bowl of cherries just make sure you spit out the pits

You’re here. You’re real. Embrace that person you were, and make sure you have reason to like the person you’re becoming. The past you can’t change. The future is what matters.

Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God)

Sometimes the things that happen aren't as important as the things you remember.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

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 those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.

You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.

People tend to romanticise consciousness, as if it’s something spiritual. It’s just a word we use to describe complexity.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about there being another me sharing space in the universe. Would I even like myself?

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

what's real within the story is real within the story

You are so hot, ” I said.“How hot?” she asked, toying with the hem of the shirt.“Ionising radiation hot, ” I said. “Neutral pion decay hot.”Elena snorted. “You’re such a romantic, ” she said.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

Up here it seems we have only the stars, but even they seem small in the midst of that terrifying night sky...I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

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 time and someone who doesn't.

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

A person is not the same as a toaster.

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

God never did make a more calm quiet innocent recreation than angling.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.

Good company in a journey makes the way to seem the shorter.

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.