78 Quotes by Marie Brennan

At no point did I form the conscious intention of founding an ad hoc university in my sitting room. It happened, as it were, by accident.

Jake pried the head open, giving me a look when I warned him not to cut himself on the teeth. It is a look I think all children master at about his age – the one that insists the looker needs no warning while, by its very confidence, convincing the one looked at that the warning was very necessary indeed.

That should be my epitaph when I die ‘she did not have to do it’.

Are a woman’s wishes only fit to be considered when blessed by a male relative?

Nudity, I find, rapidly becomes boring when it is not treated as scandalous.

There’s a bit of difference between swimming in shark-infested water because you’re trying to retrieve something from the bottom, and staying in just because you’re already there and haven’t been eaten yet.

He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.

Give me dragons any day; I understand their ways far better than those of my fellow human beings. We make our world much too complicated.

I find that respectability grows wearisome after a time, when one is accustomed to being a disgrace.