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Top 30 Barbara Hambly Quotes (2025 Update)

Barbara Hambly Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly Quote: “Maggots from meat,’” quoted John, “’weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky.”

2. “Maggots from meat,’” quoted John, “’weevils from rye, dragons from stars in an empty sky.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “But 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.”

3. “But 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.”

— Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly Quote: “What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.”

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

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “We are like the whales that live in the sea, he said, civilizations without artifacts, living between stone and sky in our islands in the northern oceans.”

5. “We are like the whales that live in the sea, he said, civilizations without artifacts, living between stone and sky in our islands in the northern oceans.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “God has judged me all my life. But that is God’s privilege, my lady. Not yours.”

6. “God has judged me all my life. But that is God’s privilege, my lady. Not yours.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.”

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

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “She understood that even the worst days contained only twenty-four hours. One did what one had to do to get through them, and afterwards, one slept.”

8. “She understood that even the worst days contained only twenty-four hours. One did what one had to do to get through them, and afterwards, one slept.”

— Barbara Hambly

Barbara Hambly Quote: “If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague.”

9. “If any town in Europe would have vampires, he knew it would be Prague.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “The room was a magpie-nest of picked-at knowledge, the lair of a tinkerer to whom the universe was one vast toyshop of intriguing side issues.”

10. “The room was a magpie-nest of picked-at knowledge, the lair of a tinkerer to whom the universe was one vast toyshop of intriguing side issues.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.”

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

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.”

12. “She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.”

14. “She had come to terms with her lack of beauty, but never with her lack of genius in the single thing she had ever wanted.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.”

15. “After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “To the pure, all things are pure,” Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus’ best soothsayer voice, “and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.”

16. “To the pure, all things are pure,” Antryg remarked, in Magister Magus’ best soothsayer voice, “and to the unimaginative, all things are devilish.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “There is no temptation from outside the heart.”

17. “There is no temptation from outside the heart.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.”

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

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “I simply don’t shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.”

19. “I simply don’t shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “One shouldn’t allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one’s arm.”

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

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “The Dead always find ways,” Ysidro said, “to get the living to serve them.”

21. “The Dead always find ways,” Ysidro said, “to get the living to serve them.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “You narrow hope when you define it...”

22. “You narrow hope when you define it...”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “Hidden within the heart of the great rose of music, he could forget time and place, forget the sting of his cut lip and the white man who’d given it to him, who had the right by law to give it to him; forget the whole of this past half year. For as long as he could remember, music had been his refuge, when grief and pity and rage and incomprehension of the whole of the bleeding world overwhelmed him: It had been a retreat, like the gentle hypnotism of the Rosary.”

23. “Hidden within the heart of the great rose of music, he could forget time and place, forget the sting of his cut lip and the white man who’d given it to him, who had the right by law to give it to him; forget the whole of this past half year. For as long as he could remember, music had been his refuge, when grief and pity and rage and incomprehension of the whole of the bleeding world overwhelmed him: It had been a retreat, like the gentle hypnotism of the Rosary.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “She barely hid a smile. “That’s a wizard’s answer if I ever heard one.” “Meaning that mages deal in double talk?” His grin was impish. “That’s one of our two occupational hazards.” “And what’s the other one?” He laughed. “A deplorable tendency to meddle.”

24. “She barely hid a smile. “That’s a wizard’s answer if I ever heard one.” “Meaning that mages deal in double talk?” His grin was impish. “That’s one of our two occupational hazards.” “And what’s the other one?” He laughed. “A deplorable tendency to meddle.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.”

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

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.”

26. “The key to magic is magic, Caerdinn had said. To be a mage, you must be a mage. There is no time for anything else, if you will come to the fullness of your power.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “It is a terrible mistake to put the rifles of tomorrow into the hands of the ignorance of yesterday.”

27. “It is a terrible mistake to put the rifles of tomorrow into the hands of the ignorance of yesterday.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “She had killed literally hundreds of men, usually for business reasons, but had never learned to deal with them in a one-sided amatory situation.”

28. “She had killed literally hundreds of men, usually for business reasons, but had never learned to deal with them in a one-sided amatory situation.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “I sometimes believe that the ability to survive on the memory of joy – or to transmit it – is the quality that most clearly separates the human from the beast.”

29. “I sometimes believe that the ability to survive on the memory of joy – or to transmit it – is the quality that most clearly separates the human from the beast.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great – it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking.”

30. “The pursuit of your power takes all that you have, if you will be great – it leaves neither time, nor energy, for anything else. We are born with the seeds of power in us and driven to be what we are by a hunger that knows no slaking.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death.”

31. “However, her own lack of power had taught her a curious appreciation for small joys and hard beauties and for the simple, changeless patterns of life and death.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “Slavery, January understood now as he never had before, made you fear change almost more than anything else.”

32. “Slavery, January understood now as he never had before, made you fear change almost more than anything else.”

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Barbara Hambly Quote: “Scholarship, religion, philosophy – they were killing matters in those days, and at that time I was still close enough to my human habits of thought to be concerned about the outcome of the invasion. And too, it was still respectable among scholars to be a warrior, and among warriors to be a scholar, which it is no longer, as I’m sure you know.”

33. “Scholarship, religion, philosophy – they were killing matters in those days, and at that time I was still close enough to my human habits of thought to be concerned about the outcome of the invasion. And too, it was still respectable among scholars to be a warrior, and among warriors to be a scholar, which it is no longer, as I’m sure you know.”

— Barbara Hambly

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