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Top 25 Ellen Kushner Quotes (2025 Update)

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.”

1. “Dream big. Find what makes you happy, and pursue it as you would food and warmth. You deserve it. And if you don’t, then do what it takes to become worthy of it.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Let the fairy tale begin on a winter’s morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.”

2. “Let the fairy tale begin on a winter’s morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it’s 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.”

3. “A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it’s 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!”

4. “Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.”

5. “Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.”

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Ellen Kushner Quote: “Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.”

6. “Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.”

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Ellen Kushner Quote: “There’s the road to heaven, and there’s the road to hell, and there? That’s the road to Faerie.”

7. “There’s the road to heaven, and there’s the road to hell, and there? That’s the road to Faerie.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “I mean, there’s like a natural law, like the law of gravity. But you don’t go to jail for violating gravity, right?” She snorted. “No, usually you go to the hospital for trying to violate gravity.”

8. “I mean, there’s like a natural law, like the law of gravity. But you don’t go to jail for violating gravity, right?” She snorted. “No, usually you go to the hospital for trying to violate gravity.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “I’m the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you’ve had your head in a bucket.”

9. “I’m the Duke of Riverside. I build things here and pretty much keep the peace, and discourage certain behaviors. If you think all that has been achieved through entirely civil and lawful means, you’ve had your head in a bucket.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared – and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow – in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.”

10. “It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared – and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow – in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.”

11. “In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.”

12. “She is all that is gracious, Her spirit is comely, The work of her hands is fair.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.”

13. “In the sleepless dark, all things are possible, the worst most likely, all darkness visible. There he lay, as near as comfort, as far as the other side of death, silent and far away in sleep.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Every man lives at swordspoint, Ferris intoned.”

14. “Every man lives at swordspoint, Ferris intoned.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Answer me! The circle is complete, and bound in completion,” Basil heard himself say, and knew that it was true. “I charge you, Theron – No, wait.” Formally, he said: “Son of Tremontaine: Alexander Theron Tielman Campion, I charge you, speak!” Theron gave a great gasp, filling his lungs as though coming up from deep water. “The hunt!” he cried. Basil cradled him in his arms. “Hush,” he said. “The hunt is over, you’re with me. You did well.”

15. “Answer me! The circle is complete, and bound in completion,” Basil heard himself say, and knew that it was true. “I charge you, Theron – No, wait.” Formally, he said: “Son of Tremontaine: Alexander Theron Tielman Campion, I charge you, speak!” Theron gave a great gasp, filling his lungs as though coming up from deep water. “The hunt!” he cried. Basil cradled him in his arms. “Hush,” he said. “The hunt is over, you’re with me. You did well.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Honour may be satisfied,” Lord David drawled in interruption, “but Tremontaine is not.”

16. “Honour may be satisfied,” Lord David drawled in interruption, “but Tremontaine is not.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?”

17. “I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?”

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Ellen Kushner Quote: “Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.”

18. “Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”

19. “Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”

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Ellen Kushner Quote: “Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?”

20. “Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “He had nothing against debauchery in the abstract, but he was particular about the details.”

21. “He had nothing against debauchery in the abstract, but he was particular about the details.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that flapping black scholar’s gown, and the sword always quiet next to him, sweet as honey, and poison with it.”

22. “But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that flapping black scholar’s gown, and the sword always quiet next to him, sweet as honey, and poison with it.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Every man lives at swordspoint.”

23. “Every man lives at swordspoint.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.”

24. “Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “Blood – ” I rasped. “The earth cannot hold all the blood that’s shed on it. And so the stream flows below. We have passed through it now; soon it will be gone from you.”

25. “Blood – ” I rasped. “The earth cannot hold all the blood that’s shed on it. And so the stream flows below. We have passed through it now; soon it will be gone from you.”

— Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner Quote: “I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they’d touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.”

26. “I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they’d touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.”

— Ellen Kushner

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