Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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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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And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
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If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.
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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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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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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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“What’s going on?” asked Roberta, smashing through the branches nearby.
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At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.
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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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The secret to a successful webcomic is to trick people into believing they will only get all the jokes if they read regularly. By the time they realize there are no jokes for them to get, they’ve invested too much time to quit, and they can’t admit they’ve been duped,” said Kevin. “There is a whole art to creating nonexistent jokes that appear to go over everyone’s head. It’s much harder than creating actual jokes.
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Trust hipsters to make even the collapse of civilization unbearably twee.
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Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.
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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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If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
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...the scent of overpriced coffee was like the armpit of God.
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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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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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On the long drive home, Laurence tuned out his parents explaining to him that life isn’t an adventure, for chrissake, life is a long slog and a series of responsibilities and demands. 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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It just … makes serendipity happen more often.
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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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“Laurence?” “Yeah.” He shrugged. And then his eyes grew. “Patricia?” “Yeah.” “Oh, cool. It’s good to, uh, see you again. How have you been?”
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Someone who doesn’t care if they get Tater Tots or turnip slurry is a person who has given up on life.
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He found himself curious to ask her stuff and see how she responded - because he never, ever knew what Patricia would say about anything. He only knew it would be something weird.