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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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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February 16, 2013

Quote – Useful to Amuse The Enemy

“It is almost always useful to amuse the enemy.” – Ursula Pflug – Airport Shoes (Strange Horizons http://www.strangehorizons.com/2007/20071126/airportshoes-f.shtml )

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February 14, 2013

Quote – Fighting About Love

“They’d fought as any couple fought – over work, over money – but he’d always taken heart in the fact that the fights, framed as they were by the banalities of life in the city, had always been about their love for one another. “ -Helen Marshall Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine, 2012)

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February 12, 2013

Quote – We Learn From Mistakes, Not What We Are Told To Avoid

“We learn from the mistakes we make, not those we avoid because someone warned us of them. We discover our own faith, unwrap what we believe and how we worship life, not by following age-old rituals out of duty but by asking questions about our suffering.” -Scott Fotheringham – The Rest is Silence (Goose Lane Editions, 2012)

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February 8, 2013

Quote – Not All Things Can Be Cured With Cookies and Kisses

“More years than he cared to contemplate had passed since his family had discovered, to their sorrow, that not all things could be cured with cookies and kisses. The magic of such talismans had long been lost to them, lost even before the keeper of them had been.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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February 5, 2013

Quote – Don’t Believe in Tests, Believe In Person

“I don’t believe in the Test… They don’t know who you are. I always believed in you.” – Jerome Stueart – One Nation Under Gods (Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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February 4, 2013

Quote – Simple Things Complicated When You Don’t Listen

“It’s amazing how simple things can become complicated when you don’t listen.” -Jonathan Saville – Grandmother’s Babies (in Tesseracts 14: Strange Canadian Stories)

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