Quotes from Laura Anne Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn't just hand everything over to women and be done with it.

You couldn't get that much under someone's skin, that much in their blood, and not know exactly how to hurt them, even without trying.

Power consumed power. It would duel until only one remained if it was not held in check. She was the check. She was the silver on the road.

That's not fair." "It's not," he agreed. But it's the truth. Never assume that the two will ride side by side.

Every people had a story of how the world had come about, the boss said, and every one was as valid as the next and just about as true.

Sir Rheynold had always taught him that you needed to establish control the first time someone questioned your authority, not the sixth or seventh time. By then it was too late and your weakness was known.

Question, witch-child. Question especially those who would define 'evil' for you.

When people start telling you how to fix things, Isobel, it's best to first make sure those things need fixing.

The knowing of what she wanted rose up the way waters did from streams underground, so quietly you didn't notice until you slipped on the slicked-down stone.

For every gift, there is a cost. For every cost, there is a gift.

the simples answer was usually true, but simple didn't mean it wasn't also complicated.

Despite what I'd said, I didn't want to see Sparks go dirty. It would be like finding out Santa did side work as a stripper: nothing to be ashamed of, but slightly depressing to watch.

He could not breathe freely unless the land spread open in front of him. There were no awkward questions, no uncomfortable demands here, only the sky and the soil and the steady beat of hooves and heart in tandem.

Nothing makes sense.... You tell yourself it does, you look for patterns and make up stories. But there is no sense to it all.

When you have so many people, Isobel, it's almost the same as having no people at all.

Magic wasn't meant to be captured. You just had to live in the moment.

Being in a room with that many people was starting to make me itch.