Holly Lisle Quotes

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I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.

Holly Lisle

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

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Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

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A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.

Holly Lisle

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.

Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle

Born: October 8, 1960

Died: August 27, 2024 (aged 63)

Bio: Holly Lisle was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels.

Known for:

Ruby Key (2008)
Diplomacy of wolves (1998)
Hunting the Corrigan's Blood (1997)
Vengeance of dragons (1999)
Bones of the Past (1993)

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