57 Quotes by Barbara Hambly

I sometimes believe that the ability to survive on the memory of joy – or to transmit it – is the quality that most clearly separates the human from the beast.

The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.

The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great – it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking.