172 Quotes by Jo Walton

"James Davis Nicoll, on the 1962 nominees: "Terry Pratchett has his own sword forged by his own hands from meteoric iron, which must be of considerable utility when negotiating contracts."

"And at year's end they broke the stable door. The man and his horse, together, gallop yet, Beyond the sunset's end, the pounding hooves, Both harmony and beat for their duet."

"I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal."

"He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he’d keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That’s a scientist,” Gill said."

"Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything."

"Aujourd’hui, rien.That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille."

"1 tatty old man in jeans—what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people."

"I love you like stones fall downwards, like the sun rises."

"Across the street, there were parties at other windows. The sky was fading behind the roof peaks and chimney tops, which stood out like cardboard cutout silhouettes, and I looked from them to the lit windows, and back again. A flock of birds, pigeons probably, wheeled across the sky, heading home before dark."

"I read in hopes of little sparkling moments that are going to turn my head inside out."