A Spell for Chameleon Quotes

“One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells—some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim—when all they really needed was to be satisfied with what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.
Bink put his face in his hands and cried.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“It is the man who can’t be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon (The Parallel Edition... Simplified)

“It is the untrustworthy man who distrusts others, because he judges them by himself.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“At any rate, they got the lead out—but paid a hideous price.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“Had he known of this on the way over—but of course that was the thing about information. Without it, a person suffered enormous complications.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“Magic was magic. It had no rationale except its own.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“The manifest mind of a woman, he realized, made a great deal of difference in her appeal. Lesson for the day.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“One day you’ll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless,”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“The Magician charges a year’s service. You—would not want to pay.” The Good Magician was male, and Wynne had only one obvious coin. No one would be interested in her mind.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“there was nothing but mutual mischief.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“All because he had tried to rescue a beautiful, vacuous girl from a dragon. In folklore, such a hero always received a most intriguing reward. In reality, the hero was as likely as not to find himself in need of rescue…”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“It does seem ironic that the evil should be saved along with the good. Perhaps human definitions are not always honored by nature. But I, like you, am a realist. I don’t pretend to understand how we got here—but I do not question that we are here.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon

“ignorance of isolation breeds unwarranted hostility.”
― Piers Anthony, A Spell for Chameleon