Elle Maruska

“Well… I want to get better,” he said quietly. “So whatever you can do for me, that’d just be great, okay? I don’t like not knowing where I am or what’s going on or—it feels like falling. I’m off-balance and I don’t like it. I know I could just ask people until I know everything but I want… I just want everything back, that’s all. So how do I get it back?” “Well,”
― RoAnna Sylver, Chameleon Moon

“Yes. They had the guts to believe that the universe was big enough to hold things so strange—thinking things—and that we had to learn from them.” It gave me a lot to think about. Maybe it takes a little craziness to make humanity grow. Maybe if you see a Face where telescopes can’t see it, you’re for real seeing humanity’s dreams. Mother surprised”
― Mary Turzillo, Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“Nanoannie didn’t like this. Parents are not supposed to die. Krona and Escudo would definitely not allow themselves to be murdered. “But why be negative? Let’s assume they’re alive and try to figure where they went.”
― Mary Turzillo, Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel