91 Quotes by Diane Duane

It’s always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. – Carl.

Most people think it’s normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.

Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I’ve done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood.

What is the point of celebrating diversity if one tries to make all the elements of it the same?

She thought briefly of one police force in a neighboring state, some years back, which without a second thought had for many years classified people murdered in its jurisdiction as “male victim,” “female victim,” and “prostitute.

What’s loved, lives.

Meowing is not counted here, since cats rarely seem to meow at each other. That type of vocalization is usually a “pidgin” language used for getting human’s attention: the cat equivalent of “Just talk to them clearly and loudly and they’ll get what you mean sooner or later.

Beware! said the peridxis’s voice in her head. Don’t let It’s shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

When friends couldn’t be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up in a few minutes by the pictures in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain-forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with it’s up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eye of a bee.