Top 15 Karen Lord Quotes

What you describe as the product of a mental imbalance, I would classify as swift, intuitive thinking to arrive at creative solutions.

"Ever wonder if you've done the right thing?" I asked him finally.
"Frequently," he replied. "Legalities notwithstanding, to not wonder indicates a dangerous lack of awareness of the nearly infinite array of choices presented by life."

I don’t want easy. I want true.

Blood is blood, you know? There’s too much shared history and too many cross-connecting bonds to ever totally extract yourself from that half-smothering, half-supporting, muddled net called family.

The ability to know another’s mind does not preclude the likelihood of misunderstanding it.

One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.

And stop thinking you’re the superior ones! You’re just another drop in our gene pool! We’re all descended from peoples who thought they were kings and gods and who found themselves to be almost nothing at all in the end. Don’t let that be you.

Getting information out of them was like extracting gold from ore—a lot of labour and time, and why bother to do it when you know there’s a store just around the corner?

Let me tell you, I have seen men who are trying to find themselves, and I have seen men who are trying to lose themselves, but rare indeed is the man who knows exactly who he is and where he is at.

It was a common characteristic among the warriors—no fear of death, and only pride for their scars, but little thought of all that could happen in between those two extremes.

"Never?" he said, dismayed.
"Never," she reiterated firmly.
He nodded, pretending to be resigned, but secretly he thought that there were always ways to get around "never."

Paama sat up slowly, moving as cautiously as if facing a lion who had just declared his intention not to pounce, but to have a friendly chat instead.

Women fell into that category of fantasies and dreams that worked well when unfulfilled but presented all kinds of problems when brought out into the real world of trial and failure.

Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.

That was the nature of chaos; its effects spanned time in ways that were not always immediately discernible, not even by beings outside of time.