T.R. Patrick Quotes
Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)
That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.
No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.
I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.
I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.
We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.
Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else.
even when peaceful cooperation is the obvious thing, the only thing that will keep any of us alive- There are still people who won't make that choice
Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.
I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.
A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.
I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation.
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.
For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary...
Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.
The way I cook it's more like mad science. There's a lot of inspiration and dramatic failure with the occasional gorgeous success.
A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.
in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
There is nothing quite so delightfully mysterious as a secret in your own backyard.
Auri," I asked slowly, "are you joking with me?" She looked up and grinned. "Yes I am," she said proudly. "Isn't it wonderful?
If I'd been whoring before class and waved a corset at him, no one would have thought twice about it!
Isn't that the way of the world? We want the sweet things, but we need the unpleasant ones.
One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
What are the three most important rules of the chemist?" This I knew from Ben. "Label clearly. Measure twice. Eat elsewhere.
Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.
The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.
You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.
