Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
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A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.
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Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.
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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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Plus Ginnifer’s Sexoskeleton, which would take way too long to describe.
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
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At last they were on top of the tree, which swayed a little in the wind. Tommington was not following them. Patricia looked around twice in all directions before she saw a round fur shape scampering on the ground nearby. “Stupid cat!” she shouted. “Stupid cat! You can’t get us!”
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Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
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Why was outrage only available when useless
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The two of them sipped coffee and shook their heads, trapped in recursively horrible memories.
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“I found a wounded bird,” Patricia said. “It can’t fly, its wing is ruined.
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Every community has a need that is cannot meet in itself. The more they say they do not need us, the harder we must try to become what they need most.
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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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He just wanted to be left alone and maybe have people get his name right if they had to talk to him.
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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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But the real point is, how do you ever know your own emotions are spontaneous and genuine, and not just a programmed set of responses?
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The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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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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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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As far as we know, we’re the only intelligent, technological civilization ever to develop, in the entire universe. There’s complex life all over the place, but we’re still basically unique. We have a fucking duty to preserve that. At all costs.” Laurence”
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When the whole world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos
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The paper about gravity tunneling
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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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Knowledge is justice