Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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These things were made of hubris, because they always broke down, or worse, broke everything. But maybe Laurence had been right and these devices were what made us unique, as humans. We made machines, the way spiders made silk.
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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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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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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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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.
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Actually, Laurence is hardly ever home; this is the first I’ve seen him in weeks. Which can only mean one thing: Red Dwarf marathon.
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The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them.
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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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“What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.
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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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“Um, yeah,” Laurence said. “Good choice.” Now she was checking out Laurence’s wrist. “Hey. That’s a two-second time machine, isn’t it?” “Um, yeah,” Laurence said. “Cool. I have one too.” She showed him.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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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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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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Earlier, if you had a piece of technology, anyone could theoretically take it apart and put it back together again, and understand how it works. Some people would do that with the technology that they owned. It's not as easy to do that today. Most users wouldn't even think to do anything like that.
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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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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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Patricia decided there was nothing to do but climb the nearest tree and see if she could see anything from it. Like a road. Or a house. Or some landmark that Dirrp might recognize.
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.
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Laurence kept sneaking looks under the table at his propped-open copy of Have Space Suit - Will Travel. He was already halfway through the book.
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Listen to yourself, hear your own footsteps, your breaths, your heartbeats, oh, how many rhythms you make as you come and go! you are an orchestra.
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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.