Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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“I am unflappable,” Laurence told the bus driver. Who shrugged, as if he’d thought so too, once upon a time, until someone had flapped him.
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When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.
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That she saw through this ploy did not prevent it from working perfectly.
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Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.
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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
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That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show.
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Every time you solve a problem you’d cause another problem. And maybe all these plagues and droughts are nature’s way of striking a balance? We humans don’t have any natural predators left, so nature has to find other ways to handle us.
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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget all the stupid things I say as soon as I’ve finished saying them.
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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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Greatest natural disaster in America’s history. The storm’s supermassive fetch, hurling the already-swollen ocean onto land. High winds and twenty inches of rain shredding Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. The President in a secure location.
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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn't find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small.
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As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
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This particular evening, a giant yellow moon crested over a clear warm sky, so every fixture, the owls included, was floodlit like a carnival on its last night in town, and moon-drunk roars came from every corner. A perfect night to go out and make some dirty magic.
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“We’re lost in the woods,” Patricia said with a shiver. “I’m probably going to be eaten by a bear.
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The longer I live, the more I feel like the stuff I see and feel is like a tracing of the outline of the real stuff that’s beyond our perceptions.
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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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You’re going to, what, just walk down to Best Buy and get a time machine off the rack?
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I think that the most basic thing of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel.
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Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.
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That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else. Because all of us crazy fuckers can’t stand it when someone else lets their crazy show. It’s like bugs under the skin. We have to destroy you. It’s nothing personal.