Tea with the Black Dragon Quotes

“But two things I have ever respected are warmth and the ability to sit still.” Martha”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“I discover that waiting may be accomplished in divers ways. And stillness has many . . . appearances, as does warmth.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“Behind the church lot stood a hedge of yew. He passed through the omen of its furry branches and found himself beside a noise of waters.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“But lately I have learned what it is to be human. Learned, but not understood. It seems to involve a great deal of misery crammed into a very short lifetime.” His”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it’s right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“He did not look so old, since age generally follows on tailoring. He did not look so terribly well bred, since class follows the same rules.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“A wizard,” Long echoed, thoughtfully. “Odd word to use in connection with computers. I’ve always found there to be so much … flimflam about wizards, and I can’t see how one could get away with that in computer engineering. But perhaps that’s my own innocence.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“Fire was Mr. Long’s chosen element; he had no sympathy with the rain. Yet he knew water was preordained to win, in the end. In man’s end, at least. No vault or sepulcher could keep out the damp forever, and even ashes dissolved.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“How can one scandalize a maitre d’hotel? Such a man has seen it all before. And if one did succeed in subjecting him to scandal, I don’t believe his face would express his condition.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“There was that odor about her: not a sweetness, exactly, but a wildness suggesting breezes that have touched cold water and living wood.”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon

“She had found that her fellow students were friendliest when they were about to borrow money from her. In”
― R.A. MacAvoy, Tea with the Black Dragon