A C H Smith Quotes

“Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“You are cruel, Sarah. We are well matched, you and I. I need your cruelty, just as you need mine.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“She wondered what was the point of doing anything. She might as well go this way, or that, or stand still, or cry. Maybe just havin' yourself a good time was the best anyone could hope for.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Quite often, young lady, it seems we're not getting anywhere, when in fact we are.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Everything altered. The room was the same as it had always been, night and morning, day after day for as long as Sarah could remember, but she was seeing it with new eyes. It was all fabricated from pieces of scrap, everything was rubbish, relics. All her things, the furniture, even the walls, the whole room was a garbage heap, a dead shrine to a spirit that had fled.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Sometimes," the Wise Man observed, "to need is...to let go.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Then you will find what you want only as long as you stay in your dream. Once abandon it, and you are at the mercy of other people's dreams. They will make of you what they want you to be. Forget them, Sarah, trust to your dream.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

“Life presents more alternatives than choices.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal

“Jen represented hope; and hope, she instinctively knew, would always be shadowed with pain, just as her despair, now, in the niche behind the tapestry, was shadowed with something like opposite of pain--a numbed uncaring, an acceptance of the thrall of death, almost a fervent wish for it.”
― A.C.H. Smith, The Dark Crystal