Pamela Dean Quotes & Sayings

Their shadows sported over the hills like cats, chasing the sunlight over sparkling granite and dull slate, the bright dry grass and the small hidden gleams of water. — Pamela Dean

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind. — Pamela Dean

Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it? — Pamela Dean

My feeling says there is history here. But sometimes a thing might feeltrue to me, not because it is, but because the writer believes it is. — Pamela Dean

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile? — Pamela Dean

So easily she broke her word. The fire did not cower down nor the wind rise; her heart beat on quietly. Maybe it was more like a disease than an injury: the seed was sown but not yet sprouted. Perjury, shapeshifting: which was more mortal? — Pamela Dean

The wind pounced on them hard. It had blown some of the cloud away and stretched the rest across the sky like rags on a loom to make a rug. A blue and white and gray rug like that would b pretty, thought Arry. But how do I know that? Do I know it? — Pamela Dean

Why do all your friends talk like books? — Pamela Dean

So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.'
Knowing he had given his trust amiss, how could he bestow it again?'
That's foolish. Did he expect never to make any mistakes? — Pamela Dean

At the moment, if you asked me, I would say that this book is about keeping the heart of flesh in a world that wants to put in a heart of stone; and about how, regardless of the accusations regularly flung at them from all quarters, learning and literature can help their adherents accomplish that. — Pamela Dean

It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol. — Pamela Dean

Arry thought her mind must be tired. It would not, in a sensible fashion, lie down and rest. — Pamela Dean

Do you want some of this cheese, or shall we just go walking? — Pamela Dean

I was testing a hypothesis. But it was right, and then I had a unicorn to deal with. You can't just say, 'Thank you so much, go away now' to a unicorn, the way you can with atomic particles. — Pamela Dean