Martha Wells Quotes

#1. I have a plan." This was true. "I just don't know whether it will actually work or not." This, unfortunately, was also true.

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#2. Not every problem can be solved by you trying to get yourself killed.

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#3. Why, thank you for your permission, Tremaine." Tremaine made a derisive noise, unimpressed. "Somebody's got to give you permission, if you won't give it to yourself.

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#4. I'm tired of entirely new things," Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

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#5. I know that by the time I was in middle school, Andre Norton was definitely my favorite author.

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#6. Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

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#7. Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for.

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#8. The public library my parents took me to in Fort Worth had the children's section next to the SF/F section, so I was reading adult SF/F at a very young age.

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#9. Moon couldn't think of anything reassuring to say. They were trapped inside a leviathan, standing in a tunnel gnawed out by giant parasites. Going blank with terror was a perfectly rational way to react, especially for a groundling.

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#10. Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?'
Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It's a groundling thing.

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#11. About forty turns ago there was a colony in the east, and a warrior named Swift, who had to change her name to Sorrow ...

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#12. If you raise a daughter to be both independent and an excellent marksman, you have to accept the fact that your control over her actions is at an end.

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#13. It's not going to make a very good story, in the annals of my time as sister queen." She quoted dryly, "'Then her consort jumped up and knocked the foreign queen unconscious with a kettle.

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#14. Annoying people is something of a talent of mine. I gave it up for a while, but lately it's started to come back to me.

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#15. His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

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#16. Doing a movie of one of the Raksura books would involve a lot of CGI, but I have thought about who I'd like to play the characters. Some of them I just can't pin down to a specific actor, and I keep revising my mental list.

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#17. Yes, talk to Murderbot about its feelings. The idea was so painful I dropped to 97 percent efficiency. I'd rather climb back into Hostile One's mouth. I

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#18. I don't think I can pick apart how I was influenced by which author. But these were the authors whose books I went back to again and again when I was in high school and college, when I first started trying to write stories.

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#19. I do like to write about characters who aren't just starting out, who have had adventures before, who have had a past they aren't that happy looking back on.

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#20. She was beginning to recognize it as the feeling of anger taken to such a level it was no longer possible to separate it from any other emotion or thought. In a way, it was a liberating sensation.

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#21. I thought I had one of your father, but it didn't develop." Tremaine nodded ruefully. "It's the silver nitrate in the film stock. He doesn't show up on it." Giaren stared at her blankly. "That was a joke," she added belatedly. "Oh." He sounded relieved.

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#22. Morane gestured them to some seats near the front, but close to the archway. Probably Nicholas's preference, in case someone threw a bomb. Or in case he decided to throw one.

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#23. Nicholas, dressed in black and trailing them like a sinister storm cloud, had a dry little preoccupied smile.

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