We have books and films where mice and hobbits and dwarves and children can save the world, and that's perfectly acceptable. But a 120lb woman save the galaxy? YOU GO TOO FAR, SIR.

Shadowmane sighed as well. :We had better do what this Topaz commands. Unicorns are jerks when they don’t get their way.:

I’m a dot in the grand scheme of things. I don’t matter, not even to the other dots.

Morganith snorted and didn’t lower her weapon. “One girl can cause alotta trouble, Hari. You and I are proofa that.

Helianthus snorted. “Olorun is like his mother: he will only change as the face of a rock changes. But . . . I think he missed you.

My child will bear those scars forever, ” Tilv said angrily. “And if he isn’t a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them, ” Neferre returned calmly.

Halt! We are attempting an arrest!”“Yeah, we’re aware, ” Quinn muttered under her breath.

You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod. Here’s a five star review so you don’t hang yourself in the garage.

He knew in that moment that falling in love with her would destroy him, and so he decided at once that he would do his damnedest to despise her.

You can always tell who a writer subconsciously/consciously dislikes/hates/discriminates against in real life based on who they don't write about more than who they do.

I made a noise of disgust, and I think I would have stormed out if I knew how to open the door.

The imagination needs moodling, --long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

My mind cannot grasp forever, " she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

I often call my current work pornographic - when I don't, I can always be sure someone else will.

I'll stick to building ships.

I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

If I want to be loved as I am, I have to be willing to love others as they are.

Morally as well as physically, there is only one world, and we all have to live in it

I don't think one can run out and try and chase love.