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 More Quotes by Jo Walton More Quotes From 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 their hearts. Jo Walton heartmeanbook There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. Jo Walton natureappreciationlove 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 pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it. Jo Walton readingattitudeearning It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. Jo Walton writinglongbook Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop. Jo Walton sunflowerturnssaid I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood. Jo Walton childhoodmissingplay There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. Jo Walton awfulbookworld It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook. Jo Walton Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo. Jo Walton sunsetlaststhinking I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin. Jo Walton growing-upreadingbook Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter. Jo Walton landscapeglassesworld Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced. Jo Walton dragonschurchreligious What you can't pay back you pay forward. Jo Walton debtpay I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them. Jo Walton mushroomsfairythinking Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it. Jo Walton differentfightingmean If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf. Jo Walton robotsperspectivemean Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people. Jo Walton magicevilpeople You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies. Jo Walton magicspecialbook I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted. Jo Walton dragonsneedsthinking All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty. Jo Walton wild-placesfarms
