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> [“But the Rabbit did not care. This Toad—this courageous, gay, glorious Toad—seemed to her a sort of beau ideal, precisely the sort of fellow a young animal might esteem and even strive to emulate. She exclaimed, “You are so very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/but-the-rabbit-did-not-care-this-toad-this-courageous-gay-glorious/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

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> [“And horse-stealing,” said the Water Rat, adding his mite. “And impersonating a washerwoman, and defrauding the rails, and horse-stealing—or did I say that already?” “You did,” said Beryl. “You did,” affirmed the Mole. “And there was a second motor-car theft,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/and-horse-stealing-said-the-water-rat-adding-his-mite-and/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

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## More by Kij Johnson

> [“Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/humans-assign-words-to-things-and-pretend-the-words-are-adequate/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“The soul often hangs in a balance of some sort. Tonight do I lie down in the high fields with Dirk Tanner or not?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/the-soul-often-hangs-in-a-balance-of-some-sort-tonight-do-i-lie-down/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not—and yet she regarded herself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/in-the-end-she-had-not-wanted-a-life-spent-treading-water-in-his/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/waiting-required-a-future-to-wait-for-a-falsehood-i-know-now-that/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/there-was-for-everything-a-possibility-an-invisible-pattern-that/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/happiness-is-the-pleasantest-of-emotions-because-of-this-it-is-the/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“She would never have a day that she did not see something and hear a voice in her mind say, “Remember this and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/she-would-never-have-a-day-that-she-did-not-see-something-and-hear-a/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“There would be sadness and nightmares. And there would be lovemaking and the holding close of children and friends and dogs -- affirmations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/there-would-be-sadness-and-nightmares-and-there-would-be-lovemaking/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“As a young woman, when she had been beautiful and had worn her hair short and her clothes loose to conceal that fact, she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/as-a-young-woman-when-she-had-been-beautiful-and-had-worn-her-hair/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/love-and-memory-and-thought-and-dream-my-favorite-poems-have-never/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“He loved who he was: Randolph Carter, master dreamer, adventurer. To him, she had been landscape, an articulate crag he could ascend, a face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/he-loved-who-he-was-randolph-carter-master-dreamer-adventurer-to-him/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/because-if-something-does-go-wrong-you-ll-need-what-you-re-feeling-to/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“That night and for years afterward, she had envisioned another dream land, built from the imaginings of powerful women dreamers. Perhaps it would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/that-night-and-for-years-afterward-she-had-envisioned-another-dream/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/that-s-not-a-goal-kit-said-why-because-it-s-not-yours-which-is-better/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

> [“This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim it for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/this-is-the-gift-of-humanity-that-it-is-claimed-by-the-self-none-of/)

[Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/)

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