Judith Tarr > Quotes

“My arithmetic is fine, thank you," Nicole snapped. Her arithmetic from what she'd seen was a damn sight better than that of any local without a counting board in front of him. The Romans, naturally enough, used and thought in terms of Roman numerals, and Roman numerals were to arithmetic what cruel and unusual punishment was to jurisprudence.”
― Judith Tarr, Household Gods

“I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front of me, all crusty from rolling in the sand, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay and eyes that knew everything I’d ever thought or felt or been.”
― Judith Tarr, Living in Threes

“Rumors are easy to plant; they grow like no other crop.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross

“Agni was her brother and she loved him, and he often understood her, but he was a man. In the end he thought as a man thinks, of owning and mastering.”
― Judith Tarr, White Mare's Daughter

“The lion’s cub grows into a lion.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross

“We all have our midnight madnesses.”
― Judith Tarr, The Golden Horn

“The wall of it rose between them, higher than any she could raise with power. Too high by far to leap, too sheer to scale. But a gate—that, God willing, they could build. If she could learn to trust him again. If he could learn to rule his temper.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross

“If you and I are only shadows, or faulty conglomerations of the four elements, or a dance of atoms in the void, why is life so sweet?”
― Judith Tarr, The Golden Horn

“If it were left to men, there'd be nothing in the world but mating and squabbling.”
― Judith Tarr, White Mare's Daughter

“I love you, God help me. Love you, lust for you, and snatch with shameful eagerness at any crumb you deign to drop in front of me.”
― Judith Tarr, The Golden Horn

“We’re bound. One soul, the humans say. They don’t know the half of it. Wherever you go, I must go; whatever you do, I must be with you. If you hurt, I hurt; your joy is my joy. We can never be free again.”
― Judith Tarr, The Golden Horn

“I am what I am; I've done what I’ve done. I can’t change any of it.”
― Judith Tarr, The Isle of Glass

“One acts with dignity,” he said, “as much as one may. One compromises only as much as one must, and still remain oneself. And one keeps one’s pride, even if one must keep it in secret, where only God can see.”
― Judith Tarr, The Dagger and the Cross