Barbara Hambly Quotes

Dragonsbane, they called him.
Slayer of dragons.
Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that. — Barbara Hambly

Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in. — Melanie Brown

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book. — Barbara Hambly

If I were emotionally dependent, my sense of worth and security would come from your opinion of me. — Stephen R. Covey

We need the dark to appreciate the light. And the light always returns. — Cheryl Richardson

Of course I'm frivolous," [Antryg] replied mildly. "You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else. — Barbara Hambly

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours. — Barbara Hambly

I like being able to be a man. — Anson Mount

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough. — Barbara Hambly

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm. — Barbara Hambly

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. — Barbara Hambly

She understood that even the worst days contained only twenty-four hours. One did what one had to do to get through them, and afterwards, one slept. — Barbara Hambly

Henry's in the cupbord,' Richard said. 'I opted to sit this one out. Would it be incovenient for me to stay? — N.D. Wilson

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates. — Barbara Hambly

Good friends are priceless. You get to know who they are when they stick by you in good and bad times! — Abigal Muchecheti

You narrow hope when you define it ... — Barbara Hambly

If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague. — Barbara Hambly

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible. — Barbara Hambly

There is no temptation from outside the heart. — Barbara Hambly

Photography is great, but oftentimes it can be a distraction from the experience itself. — Moses Gates

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another? — Stephen Dunn

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work. — Barbara Hambly

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me. — Alan Garner

It's, like, a safety bomb."
-Iggy — James Patterson

To the pure, all things are pure," Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus' best soothsayer voice, "and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish. — Barbara Hambly

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. — Barbara Hambly

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy. — Alan Greenspan

A man can always get his mind around a rose garden. — Suzanne Stroh