Barbara Hambly Quotes

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini.

The hope of all earnest souls must be realized.

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Without the anticipation of better things ahead, we will have no heart for the journey.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

To define is to limit.

I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.

Hope is really a thought.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

I am bigger than the box I'm in.

I can almost see what Gabriel meant when he asked, 'What has the free world got that you can’t get here?' Almost. Freedom, Gabriel. That’s what you can’t get here.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.