You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

- Holly Lisle

Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.

- Holly Lisle

If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is no better time. There is only the time you lose while …

- Holly Lisle

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

- Holly Lisle

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or to…

- Holly Lisle

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

- Holly Lisle

I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world…

- Holly Lisle

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them…

- Holly Lisle

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

- Holly Lisle