Karla Quotes

“So you got Phoenix back,” declared Karla, clapping her hands in delight. “That’s lovely.”
“I’m more on loan,” I muttered.
“Yeah, my little library book.”
― Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix

“Oh my gosh, don’t you both look pretty!” We looked like rejects from the auditions for The Sound of Music.
“I will have to buy them – they are meant to be yours!” Karla waved her credit card around like a wand.
“What a shame they didn’t have one in green for me. But then, it is a young girl’s style. I would’ve looked foolish.”
― Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix

“Saul tapped his wife's obstinate chin. "Mrs. Benedict, you certainly are. You promised to obey."
"That was thirty years ago! Before the wedding ceremony caught up with the modern age."
"Well, I for one am holding you to that. Gondola for two, in the moonlight, with champagne and roses.”
― Joss Stirling, Seeking Crystal

“For the first time, they were seeing the dream beneath the flesh.

Karla stared at the pointed ears that had come from the Dea al Mon, the hands with sheathed claws that had come from the Tigre, the hooves peeking out from beneath the black gown that could have come from the centaurs or the horses or the unicorns. Most of all, she stared at the tiny spiral horn.

The living myth. Dreams made flesh. But, oh, had any of them really thought about who the dreamers had been?

No wonder the kindred love her. No wonder we've all loved her.

Karla quietly cleared her throat to ask the question she suddenly hoped wouldn't be answered. "Who is going to war with Terreille?"

"I am," Witch said.”
― Anne Bishop, Queen of the Darkness

“Having someone sensible to talk to. Meaning someone who doesn't have a wiggle-waggle.”
-Karla, The Queen's Bargain”
― Anne Bishop

“The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Women are lawless George', she had told him once, when they lay in rare peace. 'So what am I?' he has asked, and she said 'My law'. 'So what was Haydon?' he had asked. And she laughed and said, 'My anarchy.”
― John le Carré

“I don't know. They look like monuments to something that died", she muttered to me as we followed him. "Something very unpopular.. like the human spirit, for example.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram