Ranee Doty

“The lesson of every extinction, says the Smithsonian's Doug Erwin, is that we can't predict what the world will be 5 million years later by looking at the survivors. "There will be plenty of surprises. Let's face it: who would've predicted the existence of turtles? Who would ever have imagined that an organism would essentially turn itself inside out, pulling its shoulder girdle inside its ribs to form a carapace? If turtles didn't exist, no vertebrate biologist would've suggested that anything would do that: he'd have been laughed out of town. The only real prediction you can make is that life will go on. And that it will be interesting.”
― Alan Weisman, The World Without Us

“The revolution proceeded routinely and according to the rules of networked 21st-century protest.”
― Neal Stephenson, Twelve Tomorrows 2013

“A multitude of seekers looking for things they do not have names for and finding them in stories written and unwritten and in each other.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.”
― Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre