Ivan Lucien

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“We are carrying contraband words with us, memorized, tucked away in tattered journals and stored magically on disks in Anna's left pocket. Canadian words, queer words that we spoke on-stage for money in the land of the brave. With no valid permit, license, visa or contract to do so. Felons, really, all of us, and now we intended to flee the scene without paying income tax on the twelve dollars and fifty American cents we each made. It's just this kind of shameless law-breaking that gives all poets a bad name.”
― Ivan E. Coyote, Boys Like Her: Transfictions

“An hour. Such an interminable amount of time on a rainy day, such an infinite span when waiting for that cute guy in your geometry class to ring, such an eternity to a woman panting and sweating on a delivery room bed. Time is supposed to be a constant but seldom is.”
― Christina Dalcher, The Sentence

“Having a physical reaction to a lack of book is not unusual.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea