Diane Duane Quotes

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Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down.

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The Spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he.

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Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

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It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things.

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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.

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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.

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So rage, proud Power: fail again! And see my blood teach Death to die!

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Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

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

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She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

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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.

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A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

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A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

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Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

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

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Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?

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Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the ancient-most tale of the Sea's sending: singing the tragedy, singing the joy unending This is our shame- this is the whole Ocean's glory: this is the Song of the Twelve. Hark to the story! Hearken, and bring it to pass: swift lest the sorrow long ago laid to it's rest devour us tomarrow!

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But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.

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It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. —Rhiow

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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...

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