Laura Anne Gilman > Quotes

“Manhattan in the morning is a living stream of Purpose; everyone's got a place to be and a problem on their mind. That doesn't mean it's and unfriendly place -- just busy and preoccupied. Personally, I love it. I'm a social creature but there are times and places you just don't want to do more than grunt at your fellow human being.”
― laura anne gilman

“I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.”
― Laura Anne Gilman

“Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.”
― Laura Anne Gilman

“I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.”
― Laura Anne Gilman

“Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.”
― Laura Anne Gilman

“There were days Gabriel wondered why they didn’t just hand everything over to women and be done with it.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Red Waters Rising

“You couldn't get that much under someone's skin, that much in their blood, and not know exactly how to hurt them, even without trying.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Staying Dead

“Power consumed power. It would duel until only one remained if it was not held in check. She was the check. She was the silver on the road.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road

“Every people had a story of how the world had come about, the boss said, and every one was as valid as the next and just about as true.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road

“That’s not fair.”

“It’s not,” he agreed. But it’s the truth. Never assume that the two will ride side by side.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road

“When you have so many people, Isobel, it’s almost the same as having no people at all.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road

“The knowing of what she wanted rose up the way waters did from streams underground, so quietly you didn’t notice until you slipped on the slicked-down stone.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road

“Rumor had it an Appalachian cave-dragon had eaten him.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Staying Dead

“Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.”
― Laura Anne Gilman

“You have no idea how to drown, so you're gonna swim.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Burning Bridges

“When people start telling you how to fix things, Isobel, it's best to first make sure those things need fixing.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road

“Nothing makes sense.... You tell yourself it does, you look for patterns and make up stories. But there is no sense to it all.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Gabriel's Road

“Dreams are what make us live. And nightmares may be banished.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Gabriel's Road

“Nothing was ever wasted, and nothing was learned in vain.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Burning Bridges

“Magic wasn't meant to be captured. You just had to live in the moment.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Burning Bridges

“Being in a room with that many people was starting to make me itch.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Burning Bridges

“People are scared, and when people are scared, they do foolish things, mostly against people who make ’em feel more scared. We rode in here, and the first thing that happened was someone attacked you.” “Because I was the Devil’s Hand.” “Because you were the Hand, because you had power they didn’t, because you were different. Because something made ’em scared, and being scared makes ’em angry. And scared and angry people are fools, even if they weren’t born that way.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Red Waters Rising

“mobs were the worst of our guts strangling our hearts.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Red Waters Rising

“You planned as much as you could, then you tap-danced like mad.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Burning Bridges

“Despite what I’d said, I didn’t want to see Sparks go dirty. It would be like finding out Santa did side work as a stripper: nothing to be ashamed of, but slightly depressing to watch.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, The Collected Cases of Duchess, PI

“I am Isobel née Lacoyo Távora, Isobel of Flood, the Left Hand. My blood is on the devil's Contract, his sigil on my palm.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, The Cold Eye

“...the simples answer was usually true, but simple didn’t mean it wasn’t also complicated.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Silver on the Road

“Power. Responsibility. The lesson she'd never quite learned: be careful what you ask for, for the devil will give you exactly that.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, The Cold Eye

“Question, witch-child. Question especially those who would define 'evil' for you.”
― Laura Anne Gilman, Morgain's Revenge

“The devil might not take him for a fool, but he was assuredly a madman. He”
― Laura Anne Gilman, The Cold Eye