# Karen Lord

- Quotes: 19
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord

## Books

- [Redemption in Indigo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo.md) — 12 quotes
- [The Best of All Possible Worlds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds.md) — 7 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> His mother had been the daughter of a minor chief, and she had carefully instilled in Ansige an understanding of the importance of importance.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/his-mother-had.md)

> One of the advantages of having languages as a hobby is that it can take you quite a while to run out of swear words.

p. 27 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/one-of-the.md)

> That was the nature of chaos; its effects spanned time in ways that were not always immediately discernible, not even by beings outside of time.

p. 69 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/that-was-the.md)

> Let me tell you, I have seen men who are trying to find themselves, and I have seen men who are trying to lose themselves, but rare indeed is the man who knows exactly who he is and where he is at.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/let-me-tell.md)

> Besides, for poets it wasn’t lying, it was art.

p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/besides-for-poets.md)

> Blood is blood, you know? There’s too much shared history and too many cross-connecting bonds to ever totally extract yourself from that half-smothering, half-supporting, muddled net called family.

p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/blood-is-blood.md)

> Ansige’s outer appearance could be deceptive, but, given enough time, he let everyone know who and what he was.

p. 10 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/ansiges-outer-appearance.md)

> Ansige unreeled the tale of his tribulations, thoroughly ransacking the truth and then dipping into the bag of embellishment and sprinkling with a free hand.

p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/ansige-unreeled-the.md)

> Women fell into that category of fantasies and dreams that worked well when unfulfilled but presented all kinds of problems when brought out into the real world of trial and failure.

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/women-fell-into.md)

> Chaos was a far subtler force than most people realised. It would be so easy to sense if it threw off thunderbolts or sent barely sensed thrummings through the fabric of reality, but it was nothing more than the possible made probable. It did not break or bend any laws of nature or tip the balance of the universe.

p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/redemption-in-indigo/chaos-was-a-far.md)

> What you describe as the product of a mental imbalance, I would classify as swift, intuitive thinking to arrive at creative solutions.

p. 249 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/what-you-describe.md)

> And stop thinking you’re the superior ones! You’re just another drop in our gene pool! We’re all descended from peoples who thought they were kings and gods and who found themselves to be almost nothing at all in the end. Don’t let that be you.

p. 22 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/karen-lord/the-best-of-all-possible-worlds/and-stop-thinking.md)