Quotes from Elizabeth Moon

You'll find, someday, Paks found herself saying, that your own tongue cuts you worse than any blade. I

The things that were so bad, that hurt so. If I forget them, if I forget such things still happen, how can I help others? My scars prove that I know myself what others suffer.

La velocidad de la oscuridad ha de ser superior a la de la luz, por el sencillo razonamiento de que, cuando la luz llega a un sitio, la oscuridad ya está allí.

it forces concentration, and thus opens up the world.

Wanting peace does not bring it … and if trouble comes, a king or a realm must be prepared.

The quietness spread, from gray eyes that held no hatred for those who spat at her face or tasted her blood, from a voice that could scream in pain yet mouth no curses after, that spoke, between screams, in a steady confirmation of all good. Those

Courage is not something you have, like a sum of money, more or less in a pouch—it cannot be lost, like money spilling out. Courage is inherent in all creatures; it is the quality that keeps them alive, because they endure. It is courage, Paksenarrion, that splits the acorn and sends the rootlet down into soil to search for sustenance. You can damage the creature, yes, and it may die of it, but as long as it lives and endures, each living part has as much courage as it can hold.

But look at it this way. Anything is a commodity to someone. In a very large universe, your aunt Gracie's cannonballs may be someone else's favorite underwear.

Not for the first time, Ofelia wondered if humans had thought of anything really new in the past ten thousand years. Had they only wandered the stars because they were tired of their stale jokes and curses?

Gravity has no pity," her mother said. "Nor physics.

it's important not to take offense unless offense is meant.

The books said that the problem with autism was in the brain, and that made me feel like a faulty computer, something that should be sent back or scrapped. All the interventions, all the training, were like software designed to make a bad computer work right. It never does, and neither did I.

Don't fear trouble—be ready for it.

The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

Beautiful Belinta, Belle of the Hub Worlds." Nobody but the residents would call this sector the Hub Worlds, unless they thought the rest of the wheel had fallen off.

Should I tell you the truth I know, or try to guess the untruth you want?

The man who had spread those rumors first had been a sociopath, a clever criminal—why, now that everyone knew about him, did they still believe his lies?

A tree is alive, and thus it is always more than you see. Roots to leaves, yes—those you can, in part, see. But it is more—it is the lichens and moss and ferns that grow on its bark, the life too small to see that lives among its roots, a community we know of, but do not think on. It is every fly and bee and beetle that uses it for shelter or food, every bird that nests in its branches. Every one an individual, and yet every one part of the tree, and the tree part of every one.

Never show how smart you are, dears, or someone will envy you.

What do you want for them when they're grown? Surround them with people who are that—the kind of adults you want them to be. Children are such mimics Ã¢â'¬Â¦ if they see honesty and fair dealing and kindness, they will copy that.

his implant woke him at three A.M. local time, when he was, for reasons he never understood, dreaming about dancing fish.

If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?

Apparently they didn't realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We

This has the potential to be a rolling doughnut