42 Quotes by Sharon Lee

Cozy place you got here,” he said, looking around the office. “You read all them books?” “I fear not. But one cannot simply get rid of books, you know. Especially books which have reposed so long on the same shelf.” “Reckon they’re good insulation,” Yulie said, nodding at the shelving stretching from floor to ceiling along the interior wall.

Jethri had lately formed the theory that this reluctance to offer information was not what a Terran would call spitefulness, but courtesy. It would be – an insult, if his reading of the tapes was right, to assume that another person was ignorant of any particular something.

You may,” I said magnanimously, “invite me over whenever you care to have wine.

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime. – William Arnot.

She would change, but she would remember. That was – growth. Growth was key to continued existence.

The bonfire was going a treat.

Lifeless corpses.

The words “brilliant,” “radical,” “original” were more often than not the descriptors applied to Scholar Kiladi’s work. There was of course a leavening of “popinjay,” “recluse,” and “dangerous madman” from his detractors, but those served more to relieve than alarm her. A scholar who did not make collegial enemies was a scholar who was not exercising his intellect to its fullest extent.

Let us return to ‘no’. It has the charm of brevity.