Diane Duane Quotes

The City Breathing, Burning, Living The Life Thy Had Preserved. Ten Million Lives And More. If Something Should Happen To All That Life - How Terrible! Nita Gulped For Control As She Remembered Fred's Word Of Just This Morning, An Eternity Ago. And This Was What Being A Wizard Was About. Keeping Terrible Things From Happening, Even When It Hurts. Not Just Power, Or Control Of What Ordinary People Couldn't Control, Or Delight In Being Able To Make Strange Things Happen. Those Were The Side Effects - Not The Reason, The Purpose.

Doctors Couldn't Be Everywhere, So The Lord Invented Vulcans. I Thought You Knew.

A Warp," Nita Whispered. "a Tunnel Through Space-time. Are You A White Hole?" It Stopped Bobbing, Stared At Her As If She Had Said Something Derogatory. (do I Look Like A Hole?)

Do It Now And Avoid The June Rush! Fear Death By Water!

All The Drawing Lacks Is The Final Touch: To Add Eyes To The Dragon

(true,) The White Hole Said. (my Name Is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) And At The Same Time He Went Flickering Through A Pattern Of Colors That Was Evidently The Visual Translation.

But The Trouble With Sainthood These Days Is The Robe-and-halo Imagery That Gets Stuck Onto It." Carl Got That Brooding Look Again. "people Forget That Robes Were Street Clothes Once... And Still Are, In A Lot Of Places. And Halos Are To That Fierce Air Of Innocence What Speech Balloons In Comics Are To The Sound Of The Voice Itself. Shorthand. But Most People Just See An Old Symbol And Don't Bother Looking Behind It For The Meaning. Sainthood Starts To Look Old-fashioned, Unattainable... Even Repellent. Actually, You Can See It All Around, Once You Learn To Spot It.

Dear Artificer, I’ve Blown My Quanta And Gone To The Good Place!

So Rage, Proud Power: Fail Again! And See My Blood Teach Death To Die!

And We Will Cause It To Be Well-made, This Sacrifice. You, Young And Never Loving; I, Old And Never Loved. Such A Song The Sea Will Never Have Seen.

I May Have One More 'star Trek' Novel In Me, But It Would Be In The Old Universe, Not The New One.

Well, The Rollout Of New Technology Always Affects How Wizards Do Business.