Cara Ellison > Quotes

“There’s a languid pleasure in waiting. The feeling of being suspended. You might look down, sometimes, and think that you are far from the ground, like you might drop if you didn’t fly so hard. You might become scared of what might happen. But if you look back in front of you, where there is clear sky, where you can see the obstacles coming and you take them one at a time, it’s like waiting, not moving. It’s like suddenly becoming aware that you are alive. Is waiting when we are most alive?”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“But there’s one thing that I understand, and it is that when all those emotional vertebrae broke and reformed they had a different quality. They began to have a word-making, listen-to-me quality. They began to know they were worth more.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

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― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“difficult to show the team what has been”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“Katharine shakes her head. ‘“You can’t make entertainment out of serious issues,” they said. Charlie Chaplin made The Great Dictator!”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers

“You know you are a woman who said something interesting on the internet when you receive death threats. It is like graduating, but instead of smiling at your parents you cry to your pillow for several weeks when no one is around and contemplate your own worthlessness until you get angry and creative and emerge some sort of burning, fuschine dragon.”
― Cara Ellison, Embed With Games: A Year on the Couch with Game Developers