44 Quotes by Daniel Polansky

We are all mothers, when it comes down to it. And men are all children.

The two old friends stood silently in the fading light, though you wouldn’t have known it to look at them. That they were old friends, I mean. Anyone could see it was getting dark.

The Quaker did not scream: not when the blood began to come swiftly down his face, not when the force of Elf's attack carried both of them tumbling out over the walls and down into the ether, the desperate and hoped-for outcome, a fatal embrace descending, together forever, into the darkness.

I never give anyone the benefit of the doubt when it comes to stupidity. People do very, very stupid things, and smart people more than most.

Because it’s a lit fuse, love – you light it yourself, and you stand around the powder keg afterward, grinning from ear to ear.

The rows of empty jugs had multiplied with the speed of caged rabbits.

There is no such thing as truth, there is only belief, and belief is power.

I remember the lightning in the air, and the lovers bidding goodbye to each other in the streets, and I can tell you what I think. We went to war because going to war is fun, because there's something in the human breast that trills at the thought, although perhaps not the reality, of murdering its fellows in vast numbers. Fighting a war ain't fun - fighting a war is pretty miserable. But starting a war? Hell, starting a war is better than a night floating on daeva's honey.

Don't you want to know what I saw?" she asked. "Everyone always wants to know what's ahead of them.""People are fools. You don't need a prophet to tell you the future. Look at yesterday, then look at today. Tomorrow is likely to be the same, and the day after that.