"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
"If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable."
"I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing". What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody to talk abo..."
"It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books."
"If you love books enough, books will love you back."
"I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day."
"I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to ..."
"the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility."
"Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is plea..."
"There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them."