If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

- Trudi Canavan

Great. She shook her head. Not only am I having conversations with myself, but now I'm refusing to talk to me. This has got to be the first sign of m…

- Trudi Canavan

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

- Trudi Canavan

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

- Trudi Canavan

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend

- Trudi Canavan

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

- Trudi Canavan

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

- Trudi Canavan

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave.

- Trudi Canavan

Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope.

- Trudi Canavan