Quotes from Evangeline Walton

Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of minute, dark beings.

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

Death is the one friend who never fails any man.

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

It isn't brave to do something you're not afraid to do.

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father's house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.

There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction." He said, "Love always is.

The doctor from the mainland came and went. Silence settled over the island again, like a displaced curtain falling back in thickened, heavier folds. For there was a different quality in the silence now. It had tasted something, rich food on which it had long been thinly rationed. Shadowy things were trooping up, called by that scent of blood, like flies that smell carrion. They were not strangers to the old house; they had been ill-fed and at a distance, now they were hungry and avid and near.

Worry and improper thinking are luxuries as dangerous as drink.

A true king never robs his people of peace.

Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with.

Belief breeds reality.

If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.

To trust any man is the road to slavery.

Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.