Jo Walton, Among Others Quotes

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

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.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

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.

It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.

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.

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

I wish magic was more dramatic

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.