Isobelle Carmody Quotes

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Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.

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You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart.

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It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

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If human lives be,
for their very brevity, sweet,
then beast lives are sweeter still...

Isobelle Carmody

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Isobelle Carmody

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

Isobelle Carmody

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody

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Born: June 16, 1958 (age 68)

Bio: Isobelle Jane Carmody is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.

Known for:

Obernewtyn (1987)
The Red Queen (2011)
The Sending (2011)
The Farseekers (1990)
Ashling (1995)

Isobelle Carmody on Wikipedia

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