172 Quotes by Jo Walton

"I don't think you realize how different it is for me than for you. You can make your way by your own wits and claws, while I must always be dependent on some male to protect me. Wits I may have, but claws I am without, and while hands are useful for writing and fine work they are no use in a battle."

"I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail."

"I can't talk about my childhood at all, because cannot say "I" when I mean "we," and if I say "we" it leads to a conversation about how I have a dead sister, instead of what I want to talk about. I found that out in the summer. So I don't talk about it."

"In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end."

"Trees are what paper was, and wants to be."

"Hippopotamus,As the leaves fall to the groundMechs now leave Japan"

"In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill."

"They want me to do something, and I'll do it, or I won't do it, and it'll work or not, and I'll survive or not."

"Maybe he [Plato] really couldn't imagine agape between men and women, and he thought agape between men wouldn't be affected by them going off to women at the festivals.Sokrates was married, and Aristotle, but never Plato."

"The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't."