52 Quotes by Tanya Huff

What do they do for a village idiot when you’re here?

I tell you what I won’t put up with. You chose how to behave.

If she does call, would you please explain to her that turning the sofa into a pygmy hippo for the afternoon might be very good transfiguration, but it’s rather hard on the carpets and it confuses the hippo.

All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.

If she lost it, the whole house of cards could come tumbling down. Fortunately, she had no intention of losing it; it would take too damned long to find it again, and she didn’t have that kind of time.

Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.

Torin suspected Darlys was praying and only hoped she wasn’t praying to her – for she was a vengeful god, or, at the very least, a god who could use a few hour’s more sleep and a large cup of black coffee.

The aunties were big believers in you made your bed, you crash and burn in it.

The off-the-record reaction of the First Human Contact Team upon meeting the di’Taykan had been, “Holy fuk, they’re elves!” To the horror of right thinking xenoanthropologists everywhere, the name stuck.