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“Plate tectonics will be plate tectonics.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.”

— Gilbert Sorrentino

“A tectonic plate's got to do what a tectonic plate's got to do.”

— N.T. Wright

“See the world anew and write down the bones of it.”

— A. D. Sams

“Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.”

— Clay Susan Griffith

“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe…

— Gustave Flaubert

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

“Only the bones remain, Ring, and they pave the continent with the residue of sorrow, each death piling on the last in a tower…

— Terry Maggert

“Cinders patter, falling with the snow. We creep infinitesimally northward through the dirty chaos of a world in the process of making itself. Praise…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“This, I thought, will be what is left after the earth has ground itself down.”

— W. G. Sebald

“The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured? I count, this first…

— Jane Hirshfield

“I am going to tear apart your pathetic little magical remnant of the Dark Ages into pieces smaller than its constituent atoms.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky