Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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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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Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.
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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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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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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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There's been a greater awareness among people, especially geeks, that the laws of physics don't allow that much wiggle room in terms of things like faster-than-light travel, time travel, sending people to other planets. It's harder than we were aware a few decades ago. I think there used to be this widespread imagination, this idea that we'd eventually just hop in a rocket and go to Mars.
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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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“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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It’s his life. One tends to privilege personal insights in such matters.
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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire
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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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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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“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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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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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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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 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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Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
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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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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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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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“What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.