Once upon a time, if you wanted to talk about the notion of child abandonment, of a mother not being a good mother, that's built into the mother who sends the babes into the woods, and they use the bits of bread or stones to come home again. Isobelle Carmody More Quotes by Isobelle Carmody More Quotes From Isobelle Carmody The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people. Isobelle Carmody loverelationshipfriendship Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. Isobelle Carmody laughterpowerfullight The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is because we are, in ways, powerful. But that does not make the race of humans (funanga) better than that of the dog or equine. Isobelle Carmody powerfuldogheart Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life. Isobelle Carmody good-and-evilevilthinking If human lives be, Isobelle Carmody beastlife-issweet Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully Isobelle Carmody matterfeet Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. Isobelle Carmody demandsuccessinsanity It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair. Isobelle Carmody despairblackgiving The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life. Isobelle Carmody magicdreamlove-is The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. 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'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said Isobelle Carmody brotherresponsibilityorder Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression. Isobelle Carmody insightfulstorieswriting Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting. Isobelle Carmody writinglongpeople Maruman does not loll. Isobelle Carmody doe Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself. Isobelle Carmody motherfearlying Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick. Isobelle Carmody hatejobsmean Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you. Isobelle Carmody waitingworrypeople You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to possess, for nothing on earth - no goal, no person how ever beloved - will answer it. It points to the sky and to the heavens and the stars and when it cannot reach them, it must fall back to pierce your heart. Isobelle Carmody starsheartfall Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone. Isobelle Carmody faultsgreedmay
