Trinecia Butler Quotes & Sayings

The swans of our childhood were probably just pigeons.'" He — Charlie Carillo

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit. — Douglas Adams

With his back to Neferet, Kalona buried his face in his hands. How could I have ever thought she, or any other woman, could supplant Nyx's place in my heart? I have spent centuries as a broken shell of myself, attempting to fill what was missing within me through violence and lust and power. Nothing! Nothing has worked!
He felt her hands on his shoulders. They were soft and warm and seemed to radiate kindness. Gently, ever so gently, she turned him, coaxing Kalona to face her. When he lifted his head his body went very still. Neferet had not followed him. She had not moved. She could not have touched him. Neferet had never touched him with such kindness.
But Nyx had. — P.C. Cast

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun. — Charles Eisenstein

If one kept the great yellow mounds of smashed brick in the corner of one's eye, then the mind understood them as the contours of nature and forgot its trick of making one unhappy. — Chris Cleave

People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world. — Denise Mina

Somewhere along the way I feel as though I lost my identity and its not like losing a passport it feels more like losing someone so dear to your heart that it pains you everyday to be so unsure if you'll ever see them again or not — Donal O'Callaghan

Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do."
I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?"
She looked down at her lap "Yeah."
Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me? — Jodi Picoult

I'm very excited to see where the characters and their relationships go. But in the end, it really boils down to the people who have more power than me, who control the money. — Brandon Routh

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon

Tiffany opened her mouth to reply before she had any idea what she was going to say, but that is not unusual among human beings. — Terry Pratchett

Women can only see beyond what their fragile heart wants to believe when they are in love. — Shannon L. Alder

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star. — Peter Sculthorpe