Quotes from Laurie J. Marks

how impossible it is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you couldn't even imagine.

What is worth doing is worth merely beginning. —Mackapee's Principles for Community

What a maddening life it is, to be committed to a way of living while also remaining open to all possibilities.

She dreamed that the kiss had been like flint on steel, and Karis had ignited like tinder.

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

The Ashawala'i call that feeling 'being struck by lightning.

Clement felt nearly hysterical with exhaustion, and strangling Gilly seemed better than listening to him recount irrelevant history.

an insight can arrive long ahead of its usefulness.

She must heed her intuition without demanding that it serve her and without worrying that it would fail.

I was trapped in reality, and when the visionaries told me what was possible, I could not hear them.

knowing that if she ceased to trust her prescience it would cease to be trustworthy, fought a dreary battle with self-doubt.

It's not the having that matters to you, am I right? So you can imagine living your whole life beside me, in a state of unfulfilled desire, and that's acceptable to you because it is desire itself that gives you joy.

To my students, I say this: one day each of you will be confronted by a decision that requires you to put the needs of the land above your own need to be right. Until you can accept that humiliation, you cannot be a Truthken.

No doubt he is a man of principle,' said Kamren. 'But they are the wrong principles.