77 Quotes by C. J. Cherryh

Trouble didn’t just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.

Change, son of mine, should be applied like salt to a dish – best taste it, understand it, and then decide.” “Is.

Intimidation needs response, bait needs biting. If you do neither, the attacker has nothing to build on.

We are the Face that Looks Outward. We are makers of paths, walkers on the wind.

What we individually deserve isn’t as much as what we collectively merit.

He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself open to wizardry-or conversely, was as warded and safe at such moments as Ynefel at its strongest. Perhaps threats simply slid past his attention and he made himself immune.

And she learned to do that, be very nice to people she knew quite well were the Enemy, and even like them sometimes: it didn’t mean you weren’t going to Get them, because they were bound to do something that would remind you what they were sooner or later.

He was home, but he wasn’t. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn’t. He had found out who he was, but he didn’t know why it had failed to satify his questions.

A fine lady she weren’t, oh, but a damn fine woman and a brave one...