Megan Lindholm > Quotes

“The only magic that's left in the world right now is the magic that we make ourselves, deliberately. You're not going to stumble over enchantment by chance. You have to be open to it, looking for it, and when you first think you might have glimpsed it, you have to will it into your life with every machination available to you.”
― Megan Lindholm, The Inheritance

“Music took her somewhere, and I used to wonder where. I thought it was dumb, the way she lived for a collection of sounds, for someone else's words and notes.”
― Megan Lindholm, The Inheritance

“Down at the old house, I’ve made a serious effort to rejuvenate what was once my garden and lawn. And I’ve been rewarded with all sorts of forgotten and neglected plants making surprise appearances. Random daffodils and narcissus. A fairy rose that I thought was gone forever. And, despite some very enthusiastic pruning by the local deer population, the little plum trees look as if they will survive. There is one that is very battered as the deer used it to rub the velvet off their antlers, but it is sending up some shoots and it may yet live for another year.

So. Spring. The most forgiving season of the year.”
― Megan Lindholm

“There is only one rule about violence. Do whatever you must do to make it stop.”
― Megan Lindholm, Wizard of the Pigeons

“I don't know why anyone has a living room when they could have a library instead.”
― Megan Lindholm, The Book of Magic

“I am not a vine, to twist my life and twine about a strong column like yourself. Rather we have been as two strong trees that grew side by side, but must eventually lean apart from one another. You would not have me in your shade, would you, stunted and misshapen?”
― Megan Lindholm, The Limbreth Gate

“Sometimes the fruit is sweet, and sometimes it is sour. It is always fruit, and we eat it. So it is with the days we are given. Some are sweet, and some are not.”
― Megan Lindholm, The Limbreth Gate

“If one must have a worst enemy, it is best to choose a former lover, who will know best how to tempt and torment.”
― Megan Lindholm, The Limbreth Gate

“You needed the bitter edges of life to make it real, to let you taste what was still sweet.”
― Megan Lindholm, Harpy's Flight

“Choose life, Ki. Choose it one more time.”
― Megan Lindholm, Harpy's Flight

“We’ll never have the stars, will we? To roam as we please?” The plaintiveness of his own words sounded childish. But something tore inside him as he suddenly grasped not only his position in the greater scheme of things, but Humanity’s.”
― Megan Lindholm, Alien Earth

“Harpies don't give up on blood debts. Neither do the men who serve them. A life must be given in return.”
― Megan Lindholm, Harpy's Flight

“And once he observed, "This has been the longest night of my life," to which she replied, "The dawn is wise enough to wait some struggles out.”
― Megan Lindholm, Wizard of the Pigeons: The 35th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

“There was an old man in a village. He had an old rifle, and whenever the foreign soldiers came near, he would fire a few shots in the air. This was because the guerrilla forces expected him to snipe at the foreign soldiers. He could not bring himself to do that. So he would fire a few wild rounds at nothing in particular, and the guerrillas would hear the shots and be satisfied he was doing his part. The foreign soldiers understood. Sometimes they'd even let off a burst or two, to make things sound lively. And the old man's family slept safely at night.
"But into this there came a very young foreign soldier who didn't understand the rules of the game. So when he saw the old man fire the old rifle, he took him seriously. He killed him."
Wizard's mouth was dry. Cassie had stopped talking as suddenly as the jolt of a rear-ended vehicle. He sat silently, waiting for more, but she said nothing. After a moment she bent her head to dig through her purse, and offered him a Life Saver.
"The moral?" he asked, taking one. His voice cracked slightly.
"There isn't one." She spoke to the roll of candy she was peeling. "Except that the next week, the guy sniping at them from that hamlet wasn't shooting into the air.”
― Megan Lindholm, Wizard of the Pigeons: The 35th Anniversary Illustrated Edition

“If you ask someone to feel a certain way, and they do it because you've asked them to, it's not the same thing as if they just did it because they wanted to. Do you know what I mean?'
'I think I do. If you have to say to someone, "Please kiss me" there's not much point to the kiss.”
― Megan Lindholm, Luck of the Wheels

“Doom teka teka teka doom teka teka teka.”
― Megan Lindholm, The Gypsy