Quotes from Elizabeth Moon

And as Paksenarrion is there, perhaps she will ride back with me to Fin Panir to see the necklace.

Metaphorically, Tom said, if you take knowledge as light, and ignorance as dark, there does sometimes seem to be a real presence to the dark -- to ignorance. Something more tactile and muscley than just lack of knowledge. A sort of will to ignorance. It would explain some politicians.

What someone believes another person thinks is often wrong. That's why the law—our system of law—relies on the closest thing we can get to a fact: observed behavior, acts, and words.

Next," she said, "we have to come up with tactics that work." "We could just do something stupid again, wait for them to pounce, and then surprise them by suddenly becoming brilliant," Martin said.

And like all of us, your existence changes the world.

My point is that if you want something to happen, you must specify that something with great care and as much completeness as possible. Then, and only then, can you devise a strategy to accomplish what you really want—all of it—and not some little bit that turns out to be meaningless when everything else falls apart.

Independence of vision is a good thing," Dorrin said. "So is thinking. But speaking and acting well require reflection—consideration.

Now it sprang up again, that little bright flame that had driven her to apply to the Academy in the first place. Danger ignited it - ignited her - the way nothing else could do.

I worry about a lot of things, though, when I think about Marjory. Is autism contagious? Can she catch it from me?

I liked laser tag, but when I told her that in the first session she put down "violent tendencies.

She did not want to be Bilong's mother, or her grandmother. She had done with these roles, with being a good child, a good wife, a good mother. She had put seventy-odd years into it; she had worked hard at it; now she wanted to be that Ofelia who painted and carved and sang in an old cracked voice with strange creatures and their stranger music. The

It is harder to imagine a different self now that I am an adult. As a child, I did imagine myself into other roles. I thought I would become normal, that someday I would be able to do what everyone else did so easily. In time, that fantasy faded. My limitations were real, immutable, thick black lines around the outline of my life. The only role I play is normal.

So we will not shake the box to find out if its contents are breakable.

Yes. You'll notice that this weapon has no Spaceforce markings, but it's a model Spaceforce uses." "Palm-locked?" "Yes. Would've been ideal to get a palm print

Now it was too late. That could never happen. His future lay before him, one bleak stretch of unpleasant duty, to the end of his days.

grounds. I said no, that there'd been a watchman at the house

Those who follow evil gods become evil themselves

Each life deserves its own measure of respect; they are not kindling wood, to be bundled together.

He's right that war destroys … can destroy everything.

I am more willing to recognize the reality of intractable conflict, and use force when nothing else will serve.

What I've learned, Uncle, in a life you despise, is that everything we do has more than one consequence, and half those or more we never anticipate.

Normal' is a dryer setting

Delay also has consequences," Kieri said. "Haste brings one set of hazards; delay, another.

I sorrow for your suffering, and I am sorry for my early arrogance, that assumed no one else had also suffered