Diane Duane citations

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”

“Footsteps in the snow
suggest where you have been,
point to where you were going:
but when they suddenly vanish,
never dismiss the possibility
of flight…”

“There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.”

“Honey, have you seen your sister?”
She’s on Jupiter, Mom.”

“How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!”

“" screamed Picchu from somewhere in the background. "Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!”

“Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true… it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.”

“It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl”

“And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.”

“All the drawing lacks
is the final touch: To add
eyes to the dragon”

“It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow”

“You do have the idea of being ‘just good friends?’”
He gave her a sideways look. “For so high and honorable an estate,” Roshaun said, “ ‘just’ seems a poor modifier to choose.”