79 Quotes by Isobelle Carmody

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

I shivered at the notion of a Misfit with empathy or coercion, driven by defective will. Thank Lud, Ariel had never realised his abiities or used them consciously. How much more harm might he have done? Chapter 9, page 97

I would never exhange safety for freedom, regardless or the danger. I had the right to risk my life as I chose. -Chapter 21, page 247

Maruman does not loll.

Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

Who knows where a cat goes?" he said philosophically.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.