Category: Quotes

October 17, 2013

Quote – Part Spirit, Part Flesh

“She felt both light and heavy, part spirit, part flesh.” -Nalo Hopkinson – Brown Girl in the Ring. (Grand Central Publishing, New York, 1998)  

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October 11, 2013

Quote – Money Doesn’t Matter Enough to Kill Ourselves Over

“Work and money still matter, but not enough to kill ourselves over; not when so many things are waiting to do it for us.” -Catherine MacLeod – Hydden (in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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October 9, 2013

Quote – Need Collective Stories

“People are losing touch with themselves and with each other. They need stories because they really are the only thing that brings us together. Gossip, anecdotes, jokes, stories – these are the things that we used to exchange with each other. It kept the lines of communication open, let us touch each other on a regular basis.”             -Charles de...

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September 11, 2013

Quote – Coping Out Of Responsibility

“I hate it. It’s like there’s no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It’s the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?” -Cory Doctorow – Homeland (Tor, 2013)

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September 9, 2013

Quote – Luck is Eerie

“I hated relying on luck. When it worked, it made me feel so damned eerie.” -James Alan Gardner – Expendable (Avon, 1997)

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September 7, 2013

Quote – Letting Light In

“A pinprick can let out life’s blood, or let in the light of the world.” -Kate Riedel, “Bells of Aberdovey”, OnSpec # 92 Vol. 25, No 1.

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August 29, 2013

Quote – Not Freed From Duty By Running Away

“You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.” -James Alan Gardner – Expendable (Avon, 1997)

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July 28, 2013

Quote – Pay attention and see what is really there instead of what you expect to see

“You just have to pay attention. If you don’t you’ll miss them, or see something else – something you expected to see rather than what was really there. Fairy voices become just the wind, a bodach,… scurrying across the street becomes just a piece of litter caught in the backwash of a bus.” -Charles de Lint – In The House...

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July 18, 2013

Quote – Curious

“You pause. You pay attention. You must, you know. Why? Because you’re curious.” -Julie Czerneda – Foreward (Tesseracts Fifteen: A Case of Quite Curious Tales)

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July 13, 2013

Quote – We Are All Just Stories and We Need To Be Proud and Remember Our Stories

“That’s all we are. Just stories. You and me, everybody, we’re a set of stories, and what these stories are is what makes us what we are…. Same thing for a tribe and a city and a nation and a world. It’s all these stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are....

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