19 Quotes by Pamela Dean

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

Peg was involved in a common form of senior-year panic that caused its victims to exhibit permanent distraction and to take up residence in the library.

A collaborative analysis: i.e, he asked questions until he got either the answers he wanted or some other that was acceptable because he had never thought of it.

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feeltrue to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is.

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking?

I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say, 'Thank you so much, go away now' to a unicorn, the way you can with atomic particles.