Adventure Quote by Kij Johnson

“Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”

— 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?…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kij Johnson

“There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kij Johnson

“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.”

— Kij Johnson

Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

— 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…

— Kij Johnson