Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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“No!” Patricia’s eyes flooded and she felt short of breath. “You can’t! You can’t!” And then she was running, careening, with the red bucket in one hand. She could hear her sister behind her, smashing branches.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
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That she saw through this ploy did not prevent it from working perfectly.
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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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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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If she ended, his life would go on, but his story would be over.
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Crushed wing. Crying, in a pitch almost too high for Patricia to hear. She looked into the sparrow’s eye, enveloped by a dark stripe, and she saw its fear. Not just fear, but also misery - as if this bird knew it would die
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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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Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.
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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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"That’s because our parents pick out our shoes,” said Patricia. “Just wait until we’re grown up. Our shoes will be insane.
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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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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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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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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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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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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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You’re going to, what, just walk down to Best Buy and get a time machine off the rack?
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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 showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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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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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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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.