Fire Logic Quotes

“...how impossible it
is to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option you
couldn’t even imagine.”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic

“What is worth doing is worth merely beginning. —Mackapee’s Principles for Community”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic

“The Ashawala'i call that feeling 'being struck by lightning.”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic

“Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic

“She dreamed that the kiss had been like flint on steel, and Karis had ignited like tinder.”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic

“,,Husband", snorted Willis. When Zanja glanced at him curiously, he added, "City folk use it to mean something completely different from what it truly means, and then they call us backwards.These are the same people who let their kin live on the streets, like those beggars out there, rather than keeping them decently clothed and fed."
"Those beggars are smoke sick"; Zanja said.
"All the more reason why they need their families", Willis snapped.
"So what would you call this woman's man?"
"Not her husband", Willis said obstinately. "Where is the household? Where are the other parents for the child? It's just the two of them. That's no family.”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic

“It’s not the having that matters to you, am I right? So you can imagine living your whole life beside me, in a state of unfulfilled desire, and that’s acceptable to you because it is desire itself that gives you joy.”
― Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic