Darkover Reading Quotes

#1. No one is allowed to be born without a purpose, no one.

Jaymi Mozeak

#2. Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.

Cynthia Ozick

#3. He doesn't know if the words they are using actually mean the things they purport to mean or whether the words have taken on a new significance. They are talking about nothing, after all. And yet these words, these nothings, are all they have, and he wishes there were whole dictionaries of them.

Rachel Joyce

#4. Better to have some hope in the good of people than no hope at all.

Angela Richardson

#5. I think if you stop bad habits, and you stop long enough, you develop good habits.

Jordan Knight

#6. You are so beautiful," he sighed into her hair.
She tried to check her girlish giggle, unsuccessfully. "Gray, it's dark as
pitch. You can't even see me."
"Even in the dark," he murmured against her skin. "You are the most
beautiful woman I've ever known, even in the dark.

Tessa Dare

#7. Words were sometimes like ammo. They could strike you with fear worse than an arrow. And worse was sometimes knowing ahead a time what the words were.

Cyndi Goodgame

#8. Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.

Celia Imrie

#9. There was something about Nick that was like being around a wild animal. He was smiling and friendly now, but it felt like at any minute he could turn snarling and scary again.

Rachel Hawkins

#10. The two things, love and snow, that make the world look fresh again

Charles Finch