“ You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you’re connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you’re… Jo Walton
“ I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now. Jo Walton
“ One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before. Jo Walton
“ You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. Jo Walton
“ At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Grampar’s chair resented anyone else sitting on it as much as he did himself. Gramma’s shirts and jumpe… Jo Walton
“ I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on trains, all my life, and every time I do I'll remember today and it will connect up. (Is that magic?… Jo Walton
“ You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is. It's like if you… Jo Walton
“ It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things conn… Jo Walton
“ Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic. Jo Walton
“ On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldn’t have had Auntie Teg and my mother, but I don’t think they did it more than twice. Then there’s… Jo Walton
“ And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it. Jo Walton
“ Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is plea… Jo Walton
“ The knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility. Jo Walton
“ I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to… Jo Walton
