Elizabeth

“When you discover that you are living in a fantasy that cannot endure, a fantasy that will destroy your world, and your children, what do you do?

People said things like, Fuck it, or Fuck the future. They said things like, The day is warm, or This meal is excellent, or Let's go to the lake and swim.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

“In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312

“Ain't it a shame the body can't go where the heart lives.”
― Melinda Haynes

“Here they were, on the only planetary surface on which you could walk freely, naked to the wind and the sun, and when they had a choice, they sat in boxes and stared at littler boxes, just as if they had no choice-as if they were in a space station-”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312