“I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.”
Lian Hearn“I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.”
Lian Hearn“..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.”
Lian Hearn, Brilliance of the Moon“But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.”
Lian Hearn, Across the Nightingale Floor“The bonds between husband and wife spring from deep laws of destiny and should not be broken lightly.”
Lian Hearn, The Emperor of the Eight Islands“I am what I am and what I have always been, a poor soul on a journey.”
Lian Hearn, The Emperor of the Eight Islands“But, as your saints teach and we have always known, attachment enslaves you. Only those free from it see the world as it really is and have power over themselves and all things.”
Lian Hearn, Autumn Princess, Dragon Child“...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature."It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.”
Lian Hearn, The Harsh Cry of the Heron: The Last Tale of the Otori