Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.
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That she saw through this ploy did not prevent it from working perfectly.
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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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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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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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That’s what history is, really,” Bianca says, “the process for turning idiots into visionaries.
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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 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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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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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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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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You’re going to, what, just walk down to Best Buy and get a time machine off the rack?
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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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“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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I showed my magic to a civilian one time, and it got ugly.
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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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When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire
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Maybe increasing the aggregate level of happiness in the world is one way to try and hold back the crash.