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- Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.
- If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships…
- The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel.…
- When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have, in the imaginative…
- You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see.
- But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on…
- Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.
- What you get is no longer what you see.
- Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was…
- The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person,…
- I am not a saint or a cripple, I am not a wound; now I will see whether I am a coward.
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
- What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how…
- What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
- But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact.…
- He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no…
- You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like…
- When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.…
- I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age to see Snow…
- Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick…
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