Category: Quotes

November 1, 2012

Quote – Vampires Smell of Old Books

“Smells pretty good for a vampire. He smelled of old books and rooms left forgotten.” -Kerry Anne Fudge – “Harvest” in UnEarthed (Third Person Press, 2012).

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October 29, 2012

Quote – Science Fiction Not Necessarily About Fiction or Science

“Science fiction… is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.” -Judith Merril- Foreword  (In Tesseracts)

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October 21, 2012

Quote – Canadian Tropes – Privileging Community Over Individual Heroics

“By now, many of us could recite the list of tropes that we’ve decided make us us: stories that privilege the community over individual heroics; stories about open space(s), alienation, isolation; about the rare and precious coming together of isolated bodies to comfort each other in the dark and cold before separating once more…” -Nalo Hopkinson – Final Thoughts (in...

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October 19, 2012

Quote – Never Prepare For Bizarreness of Reality

“She’d learned from her experience… that she could never prepare for the bizarreness of reality.” -Nina Munteanu – Darwin’s Paradox

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October 18, 2012

Quote – Prejudice About What One Could Do Instead Of What They Are Doing

“How can you hate a whole group of people without knowing the individuals? That’s stupid prejudice. It isn’t fair or realistic. Each of them is different and you’re lumping them all into one bad group based on what they could do as opposed to what they are doing or willing to do.” -Nina Munteanu – Darwin’s Paradox

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October 15, 2012

Quote – Add Gasoline to High School Years

“To my years in high school/ I’d add gasoline/ stand back at the burst of flame/ give a silent cheer.” -Michelle Barker – Fire (in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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October 13, 2012

Quote – Wild Beauty

“These denizens of the modern have cleared and clipped the bushes as through natural, wild beauty is repugnant. What a society! What a mockery.” -Nancy Kilpatrick – Berserker (in Vampyric Variations)

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October 9, 2012

Quote – Changed By Narrative

“Pick up the threads of your narrative and return to weaving your life again… move back out into the world. Change it and be changed by it.” -Alette J. Willis – Thought and Memory (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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October 7, 2012

Quote – Everyone Wants to be the Hero of Their Own Story

“Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story, but there’s not enough room for them all, so they fester from bitter self-righteousness.” -E.L. Chen – Fin-de-siecle (in Tesseracts Nine. Edge, Calgary, 2005)

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October 5, 2012

Quote – Things Exist Because We Believe Them To Exist

“The world as we have it is here mostly because of habit. We’ve all agreed that certain things exist – we’re taught as impressionable infants that this is a table and this is what it looks like, that’s a tree out the window there, a dog looks and sounds just so. At the same time we’re informed that Goon and...

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