and then they were upon her.

“Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about the problems…

— John Joseph Adams

“Have you got anything to trade? I don't need much, but I've been trying to keep my spirits up by trading with the neighbors.…

— John Joseph Adams

“Well, you never can tell with a twister. They are as mean, as ornery, and as unpredictable as an unhappy woman.”

— John Joseph Adams

“Surely love cannot exist outside of time. It depends upon small objects.”

— John Joseph Adams

“I think everyone is a foolish child,” said the Emperor of the Air. “I know I’m one.”

— John Joseph Adams

“oh do you remember when we were courting when my head lay upon your breast you could make me believe by the falling of…

— John Joseph Adams

“Nothing lives forever. Not even dragons.”

— John Joseph Adams

“There are hardly any women in Iram. This is a problem, because without women nothing happens.”

— John Joseph Adams

“There is some sickness in man, some paranoid delusion, some grandiose morbidity that runs right through to distant ancestors. Or maybe it is the…

— John Joseph Adams

“Glinda sat at her desk, doing whatever sorceresses do in the mornings.”

— John Joseph Adams

“Everything changes after a storm.”

— John Joseph Adams

“We believe we know a great lot, with our instruments and things, but I was old enough then to believe we don't know half…

— John Joseph Adams

“Killed by a librarian with a red card," said Jerry. "that's got to be embarrassing.”

— John Joseph Adams

“Those are stories, little one,” said the cobbler. “Stories are made up except when they’re not.”

— John Joseph Adams

“to be loved is not the same as to be known.”

— John Joseph Adams