“ There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. Jo Walton
“ They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. What good does an independent nuclear deterrent do Britain, compared to the good of… Jo Walton
“ Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of… Jo Walton
“ The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away. Jo Walton
“ Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonderful. They’re better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but… Jo Walton
“ My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that she had no integrity left and was nothing but a coil of hatreds consuming themselves in futility. We… Jo Walton
“ I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail. Jo Walton
“ I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg. Jo Walton
“ The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't. Jo Walton
“ There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice. Jo Walton
“ What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? Ho… Jo Walton
“ She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much m… Jo Walton
“ In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world. Jo Walton
