Barbara Hambly Quotes

Barbara Hambly is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.

Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse, as well as within previously existing settings . Wikipedia

✵ 28. August 1951

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Barbara Hambly Quotes

“Loving and hating were so close, two sides of a coin whose name was Need.”

Barbara Hambly

Source: The Rainbow Abyss (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 153)

“I suppose the talisman you gave me will keep people from noticing a full-grown horse?”

Barbara Hambly

“I’m not sure,” he said, gladly accepting the offer of a straight line. “It might keep them from noticing half of it but then the rest would be awfully conspicuous.”
Source: The Rainbow Abyss (1991), Chapter 9 (p. 145)