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March 27, 2013

Quote – Trees Enjoying You Walking Through Them

“I could feel the forest enjoying your walking through it. It was like the trees knew you.” -Charles de Lint – Mulengro (Orb 2003)

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March 23, 2013

Quote – Terrible Things BUT Great Books

“There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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March 21, 2013

Quote – People Fight For Fear of Monsters

“People unite against things. People fight when they’re scared and threatened, not to change, not for the future. They get it wrong in the other Tales. People don’t fight for heroes: They fight for the monsters. For fear of the monsters in the dark.” -Leah Bobet – Above (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012)

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March 18, 2013

Quote – Science Fiction Makes You Look at Things From New Angles

“One of the things I’ve always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you’d never have thought about before.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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March 16, 2013

Quote – Who Has The Right To Decide Acceptable Behaviour?

“Who had the right to decide what types of behaviour were acceptable for all species under all circumstances?” -J. Paul Cooper – The Dinner Guest (Canadian Tales of the Fantastic)

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March 11, 2013

Quote – Entropy

“But nothing is ever really fixed. Michael’s father once told him about entropy and he never forgot. Something that depressing is hard to forget. Everything is eroding; people slow it down by fixing their cars and fixing their love lives and fixing their bodies, but in the end, it all falls apart anyway.” -Brett Savory – In and Down (Brindle...

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March 9, 2013

Quote – Iridescent Love

“I wanted a place that was iridescent, that lit without burning. Being in love is sort of like that, when it’s real. When it’s true.” -Leah Bobet – Above (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2012)

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March 6, 2013

Quote – Don’t Voice Ideas If Don’t Want Them Realized

“Don’t voice your ideas if you don’t want them realized.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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March 2, 2013

Quote – The Storytelling Ritual

It was part of the storytelling ritual; the hints, the reticence, and then the reluctant recitation. Whatever wild tale he would spin would at least be entertaining and perhaps there might even be enough truth in it that it would give him some clues to the world he was entering.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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February 26, 2013

Quote – Zombies Always Around When You Don’t Want Them To Be

“Like all things, zombies are always around when you don’t want them to be.” -James F. W. Thompson – “Fitting in” in UnEarthed (Third Person Press, 2012).

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