“People create poetry and mustard gas. We invent gods and monsters and gods that might as well be monsters. We act with extraordinary grace and unfathomable cruelty. We're so terribly intelligent, and dreadfully easy to fool.”
― Spectred Isle
― Spectred Isle
“She went away, and the fireflies, on their electric circuits, fluttered after her like an errant constellation, showing her how to walk in darkness. I heard her say, faintly, "We've got to try, anyway.”
― R is for Rocket
― R is for Rocket
“the cynical could afford the luxury of their cynicism because of the stability of the system they mocked.”
― The Consuming Fire
― The Consuming Fire
“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
“Depending on yet more men seems to her like part of the problem. Better to rely on their own invisibility. A memory of that deer standing on the path then sprinting away. The sisterhood of idiot creatures, the wisdom that comes with knowing you could be prey.”
― The Porpoise
― The Porpoise
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