Barbara Hambly famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Butterfly #Hands #Giving
The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Answers #Want #Enough
I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Book #Shining #Retreat
You narrow hope when you define it...
-- Barbara Hambly
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Imagination #Progress #Driven
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Boring #Gravity #Oneself
I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Fields #Impossible #Making Money
One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.
-- Barbara Hambly

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

#Cleaning #Lifetime #Footwear
God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Privilege #Judged
We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.
-- Barbara Hambly

#People #Different #Stage
Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.
-- Barbara Hambly

#Running #Differences #Wizards

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