Quotes from Emma Bull

They don't know how the world is shaped. And so they give it a shape, and try to make everything fit it. They separate the right from the left, the man from the woman, the plant from the animal, the sun from the moon. They only want to count to two.

Are you decent? Tick-Tick called through the door. I said what I was supposed to: No, but I'm dressed.

You may attack royalty, or deny its will, but you must never, never ignore it

I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it.

She felt … new, just-made. She felt as if everything she had ever done out of weakness or fear had been undone, and all of her past washed clean.

Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves

I see the light at the end of the candle.

If I had to, I'd fight it like death itself. But with you, I don't have to.

Nacemos solos en nuestra cabeza; vivimos solos allí; morimos solos. Los secretos, pues, a la tumba. Por un momento sentí deseos desesperados de no estar a solas...

No vivieron felices para siempre, pues nada vive eternamente; pero vivieron tantos años como es natural, y después pasaron juntos a la tierra donde los árboles florecen y dan fruto a un mismo tiempo, y donde las flores de primavera nunca se marchitan.

In Newry town I was bred and born, In Steven's Green now I die in scorn. I served my time to the saddling trade. But I turned out to be I turned out to be a roving blade.

That's bad art, you know. Copying reality without interpreting it." "Mmm. But illusion is not art. It can be a tool for art, but there is nothing of genuine creation in it.

You'd be surprised at how clearly you can hear something in your head and not be able to reproduce it.

The weather turned to damp heat, the kind that settled on the shoulders and made people walk as if they were twenty pounds too heavy. It pointed tempers and blunted energy, and gave despair a great seductive power.

Gonna see if Meg's here," Eddi whispered. "Go back to sleep." "I doubt if I can. But if you prefer it, I can lie here and be still." "Probably a good idea." Eddi grinned and kissed his nose. "She thinks you're full of nonsense." "She's lamentably ignorant of my better qualities." "You mean she hasn't seen you with your clothes off?" Eddi thought he blushed.

Lives are beyond price, and to treat them as if they have some kind of barter value is obscene.

They held each other in silence, and he buried his face in her hair. "Do what you can, my primrose," he whispered at last. "I love my life better than I ever have, now that it's at risk. But even so, I love you better still.

Falkner sometimes thought her heart was a voodoo doll, full of pins. One each for Ben and the girls. One for each member of the team. She felt the new pin slide in and hoped for the best.

Have you seen it...Singin' in the rain, have you seen it? ...His answer was all in his face, scornful and baffled at once. Money makes me ask stupid questions. He wanted it, of course, because someone else didn't have it. Debbie Reynolds dies in the end, I told him.

Oh, lord, are we going to have to get a van? Carla's junkyard dog can't transport the whole band." "And we need a PA," Willy reminded her. "Shit. And a PA. Why do you have to be rich to get rich?

Suddenly I could imagine all the things my body might do when I wasn't there to stop it and I felt so vile they might as well have happened. Maybe they had; they just hadn't left marks. I thought about a future full of blank spaces, and I knew I couldn't bear it. If that was the future, I had to escape it.

I'm the family oddball, you see. Not a black sheep, I haven't done anything dreadful. They just don't know what to do with me, exactly.

So," Willy said, "why no spring?" "What? Oh! We just don't." "Everybody has spring," he said, like a religious man chiding her for saying there was no God. "The joke goes that we have two seasons: road repair and snow removal. Or is it snow repair and road removal?" To her surprise, he looked a little shocked. "Well," she amended quickly, "it's not always true. Sometimes they run out of money for snow removal.

Death, the Sun, the Lovers. Lots of major arcana. Your future's controlled by others. There's powerful people playing with it. You're gonna have to fight to get it back...this is the country of truth. There the Devil, the Star, the Tower. In this country of truth, where your spirit lives, your life still isn't your own. Other stronger spirits, or maybe gods--they've got the say in what happens to you.