Clik here to view.
Quote –“Ragnarok” as a word has weight
“’Ragnarok.’ Even ignorant of the word’s meaning, it held weight, inevitability.” -Chadwick Ginther –Thunder Road (RavenStone, 2012). Quote – “Ragnarok” as a word has weightFiled under: Quotes Tagged:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Past Exists in Many Versions
“I made no distinction between history of mythology. Troy and Gilgamesh, for example, cross-references to both historical and mythological entries. Bored and restless and wanting to believe anything...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Normal just a word
“To minds that crave binary order, and the simplicity of the male-female dichotomy, the study of gender can lead to despair. They say that women with Y chromosomes and men with two X’s are abnormal....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Liking the Way Books Made The World Tilt
“He liked to read the ones that nobody came for; he didn’t understand all of what they said, but he read them just in case. He liked the way they made the world tilt different ways in his vision.”...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Mind Isn’t Tame
“I know my thoughts are irrational, even as I think them, but thoughts are not by nature rational, and my mind isn’t tame.” -Marianne Paul – Becoming Animal (Canadian Tales of the Fantastic) Quote –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Entropy
“But nothing is ever really fixed. Michael’s father once told him about entropy and he never forgot. Something that depressing is hard to forget. Everything is eroding; people slow it down by fixing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Stories Have Quests and They Answer Questions
“Story doesn’t mean fiction – it just indicates form. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end. It has tension and struggle and resolution. Stories have quests and they answer questions. They can be...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – SF to Confirm People’s Complacency
“I see the ways in which science fiction is too often used to confirm people’s complacency, to reassure them that it’s okay for them not to act, because they are not the lone superhero who will fix the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Life Huants Ghosts
“Life haunts us, us ghosts. It hovers just out of reach, taunting.” -Nalo Hopkinson, Old Habits (in Falling in Love with Hominids: Tacyon Publications, Forthcoming 2015)Filed under: Quotes Tagged:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Every Shell is a Life Journal
“Every shell is a life journal, made out if the very substance of its creator, and left as a record of what it thought, even if we can’t understand exactly what it thought. Sometimes interpretation is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Fairy Tales Prepared Us For If We Wandered Into Their Land
“I’m not sure, to be honest. I think the tales we grew up on served to both warn us of bad faeries, but also prepare us to accept their magic and wonder, in case we ever wandered to their land. Or were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Tragedy as Columns of Type
“Inevitable? In hindsight tragedy always appears so. Somehow the concept of unavoidable destiny offers comfort to uniformed readers, those to whom tragedy is nothing more than oderly columns of black...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – Wolves and Indigestion
“The way through the forest is walked by shapeshifters and wolves who suffer from indigestion, having eaten too many grandmothers.” -Sandra Kasturi – Chaos Theory (in The Animal Bridegroom)Filed under:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – You Might Not Get Everything I Say
“You might not get everything I say. But that doesn’t mean the story’s not there to understand. Can you listen before you hear?” -Hiromi Goto – Chorus of Mushrooms (NeWest Press, 1994)Filed under:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quote – People and Land Belonging to Each Other
“The innumerable spirits of creation – from the leaf-headed standing people and the lichen-spotted stone people, to the furred four-leggeds and the feathered ones who danced on wind and breeze – were...
View Article