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Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared two and three stories tall, and it was possib...

Barbara Hambly

Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick buildings reared two and three stories tall, and it was possib...

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She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.

Barbara Hambly

She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.

Tags: insecurity

About Author
Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Benjamin January mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.
Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse, as well as within previously existing settings (notably as established by Star Trek and Star Wars).

Funny, [Antryg] said, if you’re a mage, they always ask you to read the future, as if knowing it will help. I think three-fourths of all prayers prayed are for two and two not to equal four.

Barbara Hambly

Funny, [Antryg] said, if you’re a mage, they always ask you to read the future, as if knowing it will help. I think three-fourths of all prayers prayed are for two and two not to equal four.

If the other novice wizards on the row hadn't broken into Raeshaldis's rooms, pissed on her bed and written WHORE and THIEF on the walls, she probably would have been killed on the night of the full m...

Barbara Hambly

If the other novice wizards on the row hadn't broken into Raeshaldis's rooms, pissed on her bed and written WHORE and THIEF on the walls, she probably would have been killed on the night of the full m...

If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague.

Barbara Hambly

If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague.

If a Jewess from the East – her family comes from Cairo, I gather – were to find herself in need of help in Paris, where would she go?’ ‘To her family,’ replied ben-Gideon promptly. ‘I’m not sure she...

Barbara Hambly

If a Jewess from the East – her family comes from Cairo, I gather – were to find herself in need of help in Paris, where would she go?’ ‘To her family,’ replied ben-Gideon promptly. ‘I’m not sure she...

The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who'll see it on the screen. It's like the people who read and because it's in Russia they...

Barbara Hambly

The costumes help. They make it less real, disguise what it really is both for the actors and for the people who'll see it on the screen. It's like the people who read and because it's in Russia they...

Tags: fiction, mystery, suspense

There is no temptation from outside the heart.

Barbara Hambly

There is no temptation from outside the heart.

Honor is honor, whether one bargains with the honorable or the dishonorable.

Barbara Hambly

Honor is honor, whether one bargains with the honorable or the dishonorable.

Holding his icy hands, she slid for a moment into the outer fringes of the healing trance and whispered to him by his inner name. But it was as if she called at the head of a descending trail along wh...

Barbara Hambly

Holding his icy hands, she slid for a moment into the outer fringes of the healing trance and whispered to him by his inner name. But it was as if she called at the head of a descending trail along wh...

Tags: healing

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

Barbara Hambly

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

Tags: religion

Jenny froze...cut by an unexpected pang of a hot jealousy she had thought that she had long outgrown—the bitter jealousy of her youth toward those who had greater skills than she. All her life she had...

Barbara Hambly

Jenny froze...cut by an unexpected pang of a hot jealousy she had thought that she had long outgrown—the bitter jealousy of her youth toward those who had greater skills than she. All her life she had...

Tags: jealousy

You mean magic is predicated on hope?Hope, [Antryg] said, and belief in life. We move blindly from second to second through time. Hope and magic both involve the casting forward of the soul. In a way,...

Barbara Hambly

You mean magic is predicated on hope?Hope, [Antryg] said, and belief in life. We move blindly from second to second through time. Hope and magic both involve the casting forward of the soul. In a way,...

She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.

Barbara Hambly

She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.

It is the blood that feeds the flesh, Ysidro said. We can—and do, at need—live upon the blood of animals, or blood taken from the living without need of their death. But it is the death that feeds the...

Barbara Hambly

It is the blood that feeds the flesh, Ysidro said. We can—and do, at need—live upon the blood of animals, or blood taken from the living without need of their death. But it is the death that feeds the...

The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.

Barbara Hambly

The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.

Refrigeration works, you must know, my dear Frau Asher, by compression of ammonia gas, much better than the old sulfur dioxide system. Sulfur dioxide—that’s a chemical compound—has the inconvenient ha...

Barbara Hambly

Refrigeration works, you must know, my dear Frau Asher, by compression of ammonia gas, much better than the old sulfur dioxide system. Sulfur dioxide—that’s a chemical compound—has the inconvenient ha...

There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands.

Barbara Hambly

There are real problems, not just money and power, in my own lands.

Tags: perspective, power

Somewhere, there is a German scientist working with a vampire. And you need a vampire to help you destroy the threat of what that scientist will unleash on the world.

Barbara Hambly

Somewhere, there is a German scientist working with a vampire. And you need a vampire to help you destroy the threat of what that scientist will unleash on the world.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

Barbara Hambly

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.