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Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works? -- Diane Duane
Where's my bed?!" Dairine shrieked.
"It's on Pluto," Nita said. "On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet, where you won't find it if you look all day-which you're not going to have time to do, becaus you'll be in school. -- Diane Duane
You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands
and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. -- Diane Duane
A couple of minutes later, the turbolift doors hissed open. Spock was standing in the turbolift. He had the air of a man who had been in an extreme hurry, but who had been stopped in midrush and given something he didn't understand. He was holding a small flat cushion. -- Diane Duane
Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood. -- Diane Duane
Sarek looked up with something like hope in his eyes. "I must say," he said, "I am impressed. You are quite a detective, Doctor." "All doctors are detectives. All the ones worth their salt, anyway. . . ." "I will get you as much salt as you want, Doctor," Sarek said, -- Diane Duane
I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one. -- Diane Duane
We knew you were hurting," Gelert said. "But sometimes - that idiom about being there for somebody, actually just means to be there. Doing anything, saying anything, sometimes you know it'll hurt them worse than just being quiet, and being close. -- Diane Duane
A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?"
It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?) -- Diane Duane
When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments. -- Diane Duane
Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business. -- Diane Duane
The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong. -- Diane Duane
What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them. -- Diane Duane
Those who want war will find causes, no matter how many of them you take away. -- Diane Duane
When honor dies - when trust is a useless thing - what use is life? -- Diane Duane
The merriment of everything from foot-high weeds to hundred-foot oaks, rustling in the wind - grave chuckling of maples and alders, titters from groves of sapling sassafras, silly giggling in the raspberry bushes, a huge belly laugh from the oldest hollow ash tree before the freeway interchange. -- Diane Duane
And to the Pig he said, "What's the meaning of life?"
"You know, a friend of yours was asking me the same thing the other day," said the Transcendent Pig, ambling over, sitting down, and looking Ponch over in an amiable way. "Is asking," it added. -- Diane Duane
Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true ... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results. -- Diane Duane
But how many other kinds of life are there that I could learn to feel? Who knows where thought is hiding? . . . -- Diane Duane
With four-to-one odds against us, our ability to leave the encounter without serious damage becomes seriously impaired." "Spock," McCoy said gently, "your bedside manner is flawless. You mean, we're all going to be blown to hell." Spock hesitated, then nodded. -- Diane Duane
There is nothing little," she said with great dignity, "about my husband." Sarek did not at first understand the amused ripple that went through the crowd of reporters standing around. Certainly he was tall by Earth standards. He had to have it explained to him, -- Diane Duane
Belief made no difference to the truth. -- Diane Duane
magic does not live in the unwilling soul. -- Diane Duane
Honey, have you seen your sister?
She's on Jupiter, Mom. -- Diane Duane
Kit gave the Pig a look. "Oh, come on! The Powers..." His voice trailed off as the Pig gave him the same look right back. "I mean, the One... wouldn't play jokes--"
"Wouldn't It?" said the Transcendent Pig. "Been out in the real world lately? -- Diane Duane
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. -- Diane Duane
If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced ... or does not remember experiencing. -- Diane Duane
Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt. -- Diane Duane
Just a title, or an author's name, would be enough to summon up happy images. Strange -- Diane Duane
Not even Spock had stayed aboard for that - he found breathing vacuum for any length of time to be aesthetically unpleasant. -- Diane Duane
Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount. -- Diane Duane
(True,) the white hole said. (My name is Khairelikoblepharehglukumeilichephreidosd'enagouni-) and at the same time he went flickering through a pattern of colors that was evidently the visual translation. -- Diane Duane
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. -- Diane Duane
You set, Bones?"
"Ouch," McCoy said. "I assume that pun was meant to make me feel better, or else accidental. -- Diane Duane
It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things.
Rhiow -- Diane Duane
And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen. -- Diane Duane
Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one. -- Diane Duane
But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds ... get a Mother. -- Diane Duane
Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul. -- Diane Duane
So You Want To Be A Wizard? -- Diane Duane
At any rate, after five years Surak came out of the wilds, took a small apartment in the capital, near his parents' house, and began to write for the information networks. -- Diane Duane
You do have the idea of being 'just good friends?'"
He gave her a sideways look. "For so high and honorable an estate," Roshaun said, " 'just' seems a poor modifier to choose. -- Diane Duane
As I said, wear flats. No point in injuring them with heels while they're abasing themselves. -- Diane Duane
Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew. -- Diane Duane
Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight ... -- Diane Duane
The great white lions from the steps of the Public Library leaped together and threw themselves upon the iron steed and its dark rider. For -- Diane Duane
The Spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he. -- Diane Duane
She thought briefly of one police force in a neighboring state, some years back, which without a second thought had for many years classified people murdered in its jurisdiction as "male victim," "female victim," and "prostitute. -- Diane Duane
How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?! -- Diane Duane
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years. -- Diane Duane
This is why one must be careful with life," her father had said, in very controlled wrath. "Death is the most hateful thing. Don't allow the destruction of what you can never restore. -- Diane Duane
If you see an injustice, and don't move to right it when you have a chance, history won't forget that, either. -- Diane Duane
What's loved, lives. -- Diane Duane
Any space tends to look serene when it's not full of angry dinosaurs -- Diane Duane
Go maire tu' I bhfad agus rath!
'Live long and prosper'. -- Diane Duane
A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past."
"It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept. -- Diane Duane
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image.
Carl -- Diane Duane
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets. -- Diane Duane
Go ahead! Panic!" screamed Picchu from somewhere in the background. "Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water! -- Diane Duane
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future. -- Diane Duane
Dear Artificer, I've blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place! -- Diane Duane
Don't be afraid to make corrections," Picchu said. "Don't be afraid to lend a hand." She fell silent, seeming to think for a moment. "And don't look down. -- Diane Duane
She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so. -- Diane Duane
All the drawing lacks
is the final touch: To add
eyes to the dragon -- Diane Duane
You walk on water, and complain that you can't find anything to drink! -- Diane Duane