Barbara Hambly quotes:

Dragonsbane, they called him.Slayer of dragons.Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that.

The worst thing about knowing that Gary Fairchild had been dead for a month was seeing him every day at work.

The music had ceased. Alex walked over to the gramophone, wound it up again, and put on more blues, a woman singing this time, gay and sad at once, like a stranded angel who had traded holiness for humanity but remembered what it used to be like to know God.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

You narrow hope when you define it...