Quotes by Isobelle Carmody

About Isobelle Carmody:

Isobelle Jane Carmody is an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature.
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Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

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Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

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Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mot...

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My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.

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That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

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Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed...

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Did you bite someone?' Jack enquired. 'I laughed at people, which is much worse. My laughter has sharper teeth than any dog. It tears people apart who wish to be taken seriously, but I could not help myself. There were many complaints and finally a m...

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I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.

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What's your name?' 'Names!' she sniffed, rolling her eyes. 'People always want names, don't they? They're mad about naming. I will let the moment name me.' she eyed Jack expectantly. 'You want me to name you?' he asked. 'People from the other side ar...

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Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attract...

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Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.

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Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

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My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flou...

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The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

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If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.

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Author Bio

  • NameIsobelle Carmody
  • DescriptionAustralian writer
  • BornJune 16, 1958
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist