Quotes from Megan Lindholm

The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking for it, and when you first think you might have glimpsed it, you have to will it into your life with every machination available to you.

Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.

I don't know why anyone has a living room when they could have a library instead.

There is only one rule about violence. Do whatever you must do to make it stop.

I am not a vine, to twist my life and twine about a strong column like yourself. Rather we have been as two strong trees that grew side by side, but must eventually lean apart from one another. You would not have me in your shade, would you, stunted and misshapen?

Choose life, Ki. Choose it one more time.

Sometimes the fruit is sweet, and sometimes it is sour. It is always fruit, and we eat it. So it is with the days we are given. Some are sweet, and some are not.

You needed the bitter edges of life to make it real, to let you taste what was still sweet.

If one must have a worst enemy, it is best to choose a former lover, who will know best how to tempt and torment.

We'll never have the stars, will we? To roam as we please?" The plaintiveness of his own words sounded childish. But something tore inside him as he suddenly grasped not only his position in the greater scheme of things, but Humanity's.

And once he observed, This has been the longest night of my life, to which she replied, The dawn is wise enough to wait some struggles out.