103 Quotes by Elizabeth Moon

When – notice that I do not say if, being granted almost as much stubbornness as you, by Gird’s grace – when you find that you can swear your honor to Gird’s fellowship, it will be my pleasure to give and receive your strokes. Is that satisfactory, or have you more conditions for a Marshal-General of Gird, and Captain-Temporal of the High Lord?” Paks.

What someone believes another person thinks is often wrong. That’s why the law – our system of law – relies on the closest thing we can get to a fact: observed behavior, acts, and words.

I try so hard, and it is still not working. I wear the same clothes as the others. I say the same words at the same times: good morning, hi, how are you, I’m fine, good night, please, thank you, you’re welcome, no thank you, not right now. I obey the traffic laws; I obey the rules. I have ordinary furniture in my apartment, and I play my unusual music very softly or use headphones. But it is not enough. Even as hard as I try, the real people still want me to change, to be like them.

It is all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.

I can become very emotional about math, although I’m not that good at it.

If you cannot read it, how could you catalog it?

You have fought a hard battle, in hard conditions, and held a position until help came. Think of it like that.

It is easy to fool people into thinking I am like everyone else in encounters like this. If the other person likes to talk, as this woman did, it is easier. All I have to say are a few conventional things and smile, and it is done.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes – it’s possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?