C.J. Cherryh

Quotes

• “But, oh, how precious those things were! To look at the sky, breathe the cold wind, have fingers nipped by chill and ski...”
• “He knew that he wielded magic as well as iron, and yet looked away from it, and made himself fables to explain his own p...”
• “The world was so beautiful, and there was so much of it: he could gaze forever at the wonder of leaves and not see them ...”
• “What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Stati...”
• “It lent a Man a certain peace of mind... to ride through threats and terrors unhearing: it even lent a man a certain rea...”
• “He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at...”
• “But his political sense kept up a persistent itch that said: A, Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as co...”
• “He could be distracted, still, by beauty, by the wonder of a stroke of sunlight. Perhaps at such times he made himself o...”
• “He had read about evil in Efanor's little book, and how it permeated the doings of Men, but he had never foud such doing...”
• “A year of ending and beginning, a year of loss and finding...and all of you were with me through the storm. I drink your...”
• “Is that the end... of all the races and civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones bur...”
• “Could there be a snare in too much beauty? Could there be too much expectation of good, and too much fiath? Could ever t...”
• “He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he was, but he didn't ...”
• “Were the seeds of next things always there, in the circle of the year, and was that how the world worked its miracles?”
• “If I can make you angry... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game”
• “Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.”