172 Quotes by Jo Walton

You know what I’d love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love it too. I bet he wanted people who argued. You can tell he did, you can tell that’s what he loved really, at least in The Symposium.

The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it’s perfect. It’s this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It’s not, I’m pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

But imagine how he’d feel if you said that to him. It’s not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn’t be so damn ineffable.

You feel what you feel, and I feel what I feel, but that doesn’t mean you have to fit us into a story and wreck both our lives.

It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he’s snoozeworthy at the best of times.

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn’t play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?” Kebes put in. “In their livers, obviously,” Sokrates said.