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You can't trust everything that ass Plato wrote, Sokrates said. — Jo Walton

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day. — Jo Walton

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter. — Jo Walton

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice. — Jo Walton

May her memory be a blessing. — Jo Walton

You can never be sure where you are with magic. — Jo Walton

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail. — Jo Walton

There is no perfection in human things, only in the world of Forms. — Jo Walton

Sometimes I think dressing to go out is the best part of the evening. — Jo Walton

Magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened. — Jo Walton

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop. — Jo Walton

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets. — Jo Walton

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now. — Jo Walton

Burden of unconditional loving tugging at her, their needs and problems, and her inability to keep them safe and give them what they wanted. — Jo Walton

Being left alone - and I am being left alone - isn't quite as much what I wanted as I thought. Is this how people become evil? I don't want to be. — Jo Walton

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying. — Jo Walton

What's real within the story is real within the story — Jo Walton

I read in hopes of little sparkling moments that are going to turn my head inside out. — Jo Walton

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away. — Jo Walton

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. — Jo Walton

Certainty closes many doors," he replied. "It leads to dogmatism. Souls accept what they know and stop striving upwards. — Jo Walton

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends. — Jo Walton

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable. — Jo Walton

What you can't pay back you pay forward. — Jo Walton

I wish magic was more dramatic — Jo Walton

And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess. — Jo Walton

No wonder fairies run away from pain. They like to be entertained, and it's awfully boring. — Jo Walton

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies. — Jo Walton

Aujourd'hui, rien.
That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille. — Jo Walton

And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it. — Jo Walton

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be. — Jo Walton

Books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them — Jo Walton

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty. — Jo Walton

I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day. — Jo Walton

That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes? — Jo Walton

I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do. — Jo Walton

This school is enough to make anyone a communist. — Jo Walton

Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can't come true as long as people are people. — Jo Walton

What made him imagine he could have a dialogue with them?" "He's Sokrates," I said. "He's like a two-year-old sticking pencils in his ear," she said. — Jo Walton

eight books sounds (and feels!) like a lot, but it isn't as if they'll last me all week. — Jo Walton

It's lovely when writers I like like each other. — Jo Walton

I am small, but sometimes I am a small part of great things. — Jo Walton

I knew what death meant now. It was conversations cut off. — Jo Walton

Fiction's nice. Fiction lets you select and simplify. — Jo Walton

If you love books enough, books will love you back. — Jo Walton

I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets. — Jo Walton

Left to themselves, people remake their origin stories every few generations to suit present circumstances. — Jo Walton

I didn't laugh, but it was a near thing. It's hard when someone is just exactly like a parody. — Jo Walton

They want me to do something, and I'll do it, or I won't do it, and it'll work or not, and I'll survive or not. — Jo Walton

I love you like stones fall downwards, like the sun rises. — Jo Walton

The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them. — Jo Walton

There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing. — Jo Walton

The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle. — Jo Walton

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. — Jo Walton

Everyone had their own internal life and their own soul, and they were entitled to make their own choices. — Jo Walton

I like her. She's restful. — Jo Walton

I would rather have Sign of the Unicorn than all the boys in the valleys. — Jo Walton

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. — Jo Walton

You don't get a lot of chance to talk to people about things that matter to you, do you? she asked. — Jo Walton

Doing is doing.
Does it mean that it doesn't matter if it's magic or not, anything you do has power and consequences and affects other people? — Jo Walton

I don't know what I think about Jesus, but I know what I think about Aslan. — Jo Walton

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. — Jo Walton

When I got to Aberdare, I got off and walked up the cwm to the ruins we call Osgiliath. — Jo Walton

A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero, which actually I rather like - while I breathe I shall hope. — Jo Walton

I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood. — Jo Walton

Morally, magic is just indefensible. — Jo Walton

Let's pursue excellence together. Let's make art. Let's build the future. Let's be our best selves. — Jo Walton

I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught - though — Jo Walton

Human nature is against it. People just tend to behave in certain ways because they are people. And — Jo Walton

Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people. — Jo Walton

Things need to be worth doing for themselves, not just for practice for some future time. — Jo Walton

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything. — Jo Walton

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook. — Jo Walton

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn't the end. — Jo Walton

Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open. — Jo Walton

There will always be some who see excellence and envy it instead of striving to emulate it. — Jo Walton

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill. — Jo Walton

But imagine how he'd feel if you said that to him. It's not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things. — Jo Walton

She turned into a tree. It was a Mystery. It must have been. Nothing else made sense, because I didn't understand it. — Jo Walton

I nearly fell asleep over Dickens in English. Mind you, he's snoozeworthy at the best of times. — Jo Walton

You don't want anything from them except for them to exist and you to see them sometimes and talk to them, and maybe for them to like you back. — Jo Walton

There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges. — Jo Walton

1 tatty old man in jeans - what was he thinking? Jeans are for young people. — Jo Walton

Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?" Kebes put in. "In their livers, obviously," Sokrates said. — Jo Walton

if there are books perhaps it won't be all that bad. — Jo Walton

Nothing mortal can last. At best it can leave legends that can bear fruit in later ages. — Jo Walton

They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang Viscountesses? — Jo Walton

Give me the good for which I do not know to ask, — Jo Walton