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March 2, 2014

Quote- Leave People Thinking You Have Special Powers

“When someone thinks you have special powers, it’s best to let them go on thinking that.” -William Kowalski – Just Gone (Raven Books, 2013)  

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February 27, 2014

Quote – Rather Dream Than Live by Roles of Others

“We would all rather dream than live by the roles of anyone else.” -S.M. Beiko – The Lake and the Library (ECW Press, 2013)

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February 23, 2014

Quote – Lies in Fiction an Effective Way to Tell Emotional Truths

“I think their stories are what got me writing. First in journals, accounts as truthful as I could make them, then as stories where actuality is stretched and manipulated, because the lies in fiction are such an effective way to tell emotional truths.” -Charles de Lint – The Fields Beyond the Fields. In The Very Best of Charles de Lint....

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February 19, 2014

Quote – Finding Out – The Spirit of Science Fiction

“’Don’t you want to find out?’”… that’s the spirit of science fiction.” -Jo Walton – Among Others (TOR, 2010)

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February 5, 2014

Quote – Hiding Our Heads As We Pollute The Earth

“I know that we are going to destroy the world that holds us. We are savages, treating the Earth like a toilet, fouling our own nest. We all seem to agree on that now… We knew what we were wreaking and it scared us, most of all because we couldn’t see any way of stopping it. So we stick our...

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January 31, 2014

Quote – Stones Need Nothing

“The summer stones were rough and warm to the touch. They were not alive, but if they were dead, it was a simple kind of dead: They were only themselves. They needed nothing.” -Erin Bow – Sorrow’s Knot (Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013)

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January 28, 2014

Quote – Being Self, Without Labels

“She did not want to be ‘chosen’. That word itself sickening, a horrible world. All she wanted was to be herself, that’s all; she did not care about male, or female, or fish, or human, or black, or white, or anything with labels.” -Jennifer Footman – The Mermaid (Canadian Tales of the Fantastic)

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January 22, 2014

Quote – Live Deep

“You can live on the surface and be safe, or dive deep and begin to discover the truth. But remember, there are always more truths than one.” -Welwyn Winton Katz, Come Like Shadows

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January 17, 2014

Quote – Love is a Little Different for Each of us

“Well, it doesn’t matter, I suppose. Love is a little different for each of us, isn’t it? And a little different each time, too. Like me and you, like this, this unique togetherness.” -Sean Moreland – The Rosy Boa” in Pavor Nocturnus: Dark Fiction Anthology (January, 2014 online at http://pavnoc.com/?p=419 )

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January 11, 2014

Quote – Stand up for People, Not Money

“I don’t have the answer. I don’t think anyone has the answer. But I think we’re only going to find the answer when we stop making it all worse. We need politicians who stand for people, not money.” -Cory Doctorow – Homeland (Tor, 2013)

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