Izzy Verdery

“And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars

“It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Fifty Degrees Below

“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.”
― Ted Chiang, Exhalation

“Marx was a prodigious reader, and he felt like Sadie might be the kind of book that one could read many times, and always come away with something new.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow