22 Quotes by Kathe Koja

I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.

I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change — most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink — are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become.

The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies, if only he believes in what he sees.

The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge.

Even an empty road leads somewhere, right?

You see, that hunger inside us, that ambition, or whatever you may choose to call it, is a compass really, a compass of true desire. And if you will be happy, you must follow that desire, no matter which way the needle points.

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

All bodies are, in some sense; engines driven by the health or disease of their owners, jackets of flesh that are the physical sum of their wearers. But to become your disease? To become the consumption itself?