6 Quotes by Laurie J. Marks

...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn’t even imagine.

His dreams were full of bloodshed. He ran and ran, but wherever he fled, his mother's people and his father's people were in battle with each other. And then Shaftali and Sainnaite both turned on him crying out "No one of your heritage will ever cook for us!""So what?" he replied, absurdly. "At the rate you're killing each other, there soon will be no one to cook for!

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

Clement felt nearly hysterical with exhaustion, and strangling Gilly seemed better than listening to him recount irrelevant history.

She dreamed that the kiss had been like flint on steel, and Karis had ignited like tinder.

The Ashawala’i call that feeling ’being struck by lightning.