Bill Brydon

“We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy

“We were silly girls then. We thought only D. M. Thomas’s The White Hotel and Hélène Cixous and Anaïs Nin’s Delta of Venus managed to match our state of excitement. We were at it all the time. You were my first woman, as you probably don’t remember.” “I know that, don’t be cruel.” Martha stopped the car at the Parliament Street light and for a moment the only sound heard was the signal light ticking. “We had a private double entendre about the Bright Street cul-de-sac.”
― Lydia Perovic, Incidental Music

“I like to think of home as a verb, something we keep recreating.”
― Madeleine Thien

“We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.”
― Sarah Waters, Fingersmith