172 Quotes by Jo Walton

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

what's real within the story is real within the story

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

You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you’re connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you’re not connected to anything.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

For that is to be my purpose here, you see, to teach rhetoric to you children: I, who was never a teacher but who liked to converse with my friends and seek out the nature of things.”“They have their own imagination of who you are, but you are not that,” Kebes said.“Now that’s true,” Sokrates said. “And perhaps what I shall teach is not what they expect me to teach.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.