Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Jane Carmodyis an Australian writer of science fiction, fantasy, children's literature, and young adult literature...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 June 1958
CountryAustralia
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Maruman does not loll.
mirrors ifs
If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.
giving black despair
It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.
worry people waiting
Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.
jobs hate mean
Here's the thing. I hate kids. Always have. I mean, I know the job of the race, biologically speaking, is to achieve immortality through reproduction, but the idea of getting impregnated and blowing up like a balloon as I serve as a carrier and service unit for this other person who will eventually burst out of me in the most terrifying way imaginable, then carry on using me one way or another for the rest of my life, is right up there with throwing myself off the top of a twenty-story building. If I have a biological clock, it is digital and does not tick.
insightful stories progression
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
sweet life-is beast
If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...
lying stories suggestions
The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
reflection men giving
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 attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.
success insanity demand
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
dream love-is magic
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.
brother responsibility order
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 flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said
mother mirrors telling-the-truth
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
powerful laughter light
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.