“The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.”
―
Barbara Hambly,
The Time of the Dark
“God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Armies of Daylight
“I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I’ve ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.” ― Barbara Hambly, Night's Edge
“As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.” ― Barbara Hambly, Sold Down the River
“To the pure, all things are pure,” Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus’ best soothsayer voice, “and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower
“The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Silicon Mage
“One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“There is no temptation from outside the heart.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Witches of Wenshar
“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared two and three stories tall, and it was possible to buy almost anything: breeze-soft silks from France that came upriver from New Orleans, fine wines and cigars, pearl necklaces, and canes with ivory handles shaped like parrots or dogs'-heads or (in the case of Mary's older friend Cash Clay) scantily dressed ladies (but Cash was careful not to carry that one in company).” ― Barbara Hambly, The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
“Of course I’m frivolous,” [Antryg] replied mildly. “You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower
“If I don't read page ninety, it won't have happened to them. Black Beauty will still live with all his friends at Birtwick Park … The knights will be able to go on having jolly adventures without Lancelot meeting Guinevere and bringing the whole Round Table crashing down into ruin on their heads… ” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“The room was a magpie-nest of picked-at knowledge, the lair of a tinkerer to whom the universe was one vast toyshop of intriguing side issues.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“Maggots from meat,’” quoted John, “‘weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“She barely hid a smile. “That’s a wizard’s answer if I ever heard one.” “Meaning that mages deal in double talk?” His grin was impish. “That’s one of our two occupational hazards.” “And what’s the other one?” He laughed. “A deplorable tendency to meddle.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Time of the Dark
“God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Armies of Daylight
“I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“But that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I’ve ever learned about anything—that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it—and its choice to be there—are gone.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.” ― Barbara Hambly, Night's Edge
“As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.” ― Barbara Hambly, Sold Down the River
“To the pure, all things are pure,” Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus’ best soothsayer voice, “and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower
“The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Silicon Mage
“One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“There is no temptation from outside the heart.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Witches of Wenshar
“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared two and three stories tall, and it was possible to buy almost anything: breeze-soft silks from France that came upriver from New Orleans, fine wines and cigars, pearl necklaces, and canes with ivory handles shaped like parrots or dogs'-heads or (in the case of Mary's older friend Cash Clay) scantily dressed ladies (but Cash was careful not to carry that one in company).” ― Barbara Hambly, The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln
“Of course I’m frivolous,” [Antryg] replied mildly. “You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Silent Tower
“If I don't read page ninety, it won't have happened to them. Black Beauty will still live with all his friends at Birtwick Park … The knights will be able to go on having jolly adventures without Lancelot meeting Guinevere and bringing the whole Round Table crashing down into ruin on their heads… ” ― Barbara Hambly, Bride of the Rat God
“The room was a magpie-nest of picked-at knowledge, the lair of a tinkerer to whom the universe was one vast toyshop of intriguing side issues.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“Maggots from meat,’” quoted John, “‘weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky.” ― Barbara Hambly, Dragonsbane
“She barely hid a smile. “That’s a wizard’s answer if I ever heard one.” “Meaning that mages deal in double talk?” His grin was impish. “That’s one of our two occupational hazards.” “And what’s the other one?” He laughed. “A deplorable tendency to meddle.” ― Barbara Hambly, The Time of the Dark
