Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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He couldn't believe that his last words on Earth would be "she's my rocket ship
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Hernan always says that a perfect moment of beauty can last forever. But maybe some moments are so ugly that they never end, either. All you can do is be patient with yourself.
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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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Every human can be a wizard.
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If I could turn people into turtles, there would be turtles everywhere.
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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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I remember you said, ‘The truth should hurt. Truth should knock you on your butt. Lies make it easy to stand.
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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.
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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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“No,” the bird said. “Please! Don’t lock me up. I would prefer you just kill me now.
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Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.
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Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
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People really don't understand the technology they're using. It's been talked about a lot. Apple products in particular are designed in such a way that's harder to get in and understand what processes are going on.
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Under a brazen sky that proclaimed all the things we had thought our limits were merely our prejudices.
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The sheer volume of bad news had gotten beyond anybody’s ability to process into a narrative.
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Everything is a different shape in the dark. Sharp edges are sharper, walls farther away, fragile items more prone to topple.
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We could not ‘break’ nature if we spent a million years trying. This planet is a speck, and we are specks on a speck. But our little habitat is fragile, and we cannot live without it.
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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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And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we’ve grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled.
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“At last Mouth said, “Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.
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Eventually, Dad and I had to start talking again, because it’s hard to avoid speaking to someone when you’re each supporting one arm of a dying person.
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This time, I’m just going to do it. I’m going to cure him. Because why not? It would be so easy.
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“Behold,” Isobel said, “a single-stage Earth-to-orbit rocket. I drove all the way from Virginia just to help with this. My boyfriend is crazy jealous.
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Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.