Quotes from Sharon Lee

It is culture that is the b

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

Cozy place you got here," he said, looking around the office. "You read all them books?" "I fear not. But one cannot simply get rid of books, you know. Especially books which have reposed so long on the same shelf." "Reckon they're good insulation," Yulie said, nodding at the shelving stretching from floor to ceiling along the interior wall.

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.

The instinct for profit, thought Jela—personal profit. That instinct was maybe not a long-term survival trait.

Freely given, freely shared, between true companions and friends." That was an old phrase, but Gran had made sure I knew all the old phrases. JoAnn looked—and according to the land, felt—startled. For a long moment, she didn't move, then she smiled again—a little less firmly—and took the bag from me. "The feast increases, with the goodwill of all.

If you gotta leave before I come back, I want to thank you for sharing the music. Remember that you're not alone, ever; that there's always the music, connecting all of us, and the whole world, too.

An error. Another error. Yet, in his experience, refusal to acknowledge an error did not reset circumstance to an error-free state.

what Kamele's state of mind might be at this point in her relationship with Theo's father, he found himself reluctant to imagine. As she was a woman of great good sense, it was likely that she wanted to murder him—for which he would blame her not at all.

She would change, but she would remember. That was—growth. Growth was key to continued existence.

I suppose it's nothing to you that your nose is cold and damp? I thought not. Contrive to leave my hair rooted to my head, if you please. And if I detect so much as a paw-flick toward that earring, you, my fine sir, are mouse meat.

If I'd talked to anybody, instead of just passing judgment on myself, knowing that I was evil, because I was heir to every evil thing that had been visited upon me.

Jethri had lately formed the theory that this reluctance to offer information was not what a Terran would call spitefulness, but courtesy. It would be—an insult, if his reading of the tapes was right, to assume that another person was ignorant of any particular something.

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime. —William Arnot

while I . . . napped on the couch, beneath Breccia, who, like all cats, weighed twenty pounds more asleep than awake.

Lifeless corpses

Sea rose canes bear thorns, just like their hybrid sisters

Youth is a circumstance that time corrects, and error teaches us to err again along a different vector.

to live apart from the comforts of clan and kin, surrounded by strangers upon whom she must depend for what day-to-day gentleness one human being might have from another.

You will have to be on your guard, and when your guard slips, you must recover." My fencing master used to say something eerily similar to that. And then she'd add that making a recover was much more difficult than simply doing the thing right the first time.

You may," I said magnanimously, "invite me over whenever you care to have wine.

The bonfire was going a treat