27 Quotes by Ellen Kushner

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

although he was at core a rotten being, no one could fault him for style.

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

I do not make the rules [. . .] This annoys me, and so I comfort myself by breaking them

Every man lives at swordspoint.

Every man lives at swordspoint, Ferris intoned.

Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.

A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it’s 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.