Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
Diane DuaneWhat I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
Diane DuaneWhat teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
Diane DuaneThe city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.
Diane Duane