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Barbara Hambly Quote

The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now. The flower dies, Jenny said softly, having lived. The diamond will never do either.

Barbara Hambly

The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now. The flower dies, Jenny said softly, having lived. The diamond will never do either.

Tags: diamond, life, love

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About Barbara Hambly

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).