Quotes from Jo Walton

You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything.

They were not always in accord, but over time they developed such good communication that even their most bitter disagreements became part of their axiomatic assumption of mutual long-term ongoing love and life together.

And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess.

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

I don't know how I can ever thank you,' David said, struggling into that ridiculous mac again. 'No need. What you can't pay back you pay forward,' Abby said.

I still don't know if you understand!" "That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes? Oh yes, I'm coming to understand that really well." I

Our souls know harmony and proportion before we are born, so although I had never seen anything like it, my soul resonated at once to the beauty of the city. Immediately

Canada's slow, complicated, and expensive emigration policy, which on one level nobody can admit exists mainly to keep out Americans who are desperate for healthcare.

M]aybe we should have talked about this before. Well, we weren't gods, we couldn't go back and talk about it any earlier than now, but we could talk about it now. We go on from where we are.

We had already agreed that, Father," Penn said. "And of course they will likewise take the greater shares when we eat you. Berend and I are established, while our brother and sisters are still in need.

I don't think you realize how different it is for me than for you. You can make your way by your own wits and claws, while I must always be dependent on some male to protect me. Wits I may have, but claws I am without, and while hands are useful for writing and fine work they are no use in a battle.

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people.

I talked far more than I should have. I knew it even at the time. I just couldn't stop myself. I didn't actually interrupt anyone, which would be unforgivable, I just didn't hold back enough to give other people a turn.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

No wonder fairies run away from pain. They like to be entertained, and it's awfully boring.

When I got to Aberdare, I got off and walked up the cwm to the ruins we call Osgiliath.

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

A veces me siento como si los libros fueran lo único que hace que valga la pena vivir

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying." She

what's real within the story is real within the story

She wasn't famous then," Pat said. "Nobody is. You never know until too late. They're just people like everyone else. Anyone you know might become famous. Or not. You don't know which ones will make a difference or if any of them will. You might become famous yourself. You might change the world.

Fiction's nice. Fiction lets you select and simplify.

Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary.