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I've lost count of the number of times that I read this book. It was my first introduction to sci-fi as a teenager and remains a favorite to this day. Perhaps it's time for a revisit soon..
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And magic occurs all around us as nature seeks and finds the inevitable forms, things crystalline and organic falling together at angles of sixty degrees, the equilateral triangle being the mother of structure.
“But I am reluctant to assume maliciousness when incompetence is a better explanation”
― The Tainted Cup
― The Tainted Cup
“I walked through, and my eyes Swallowed everything, no matter How it cut. To bleed was my prize:
I was free, nobody’s daughter, Perfecting an easy weightless laughter.”
― Life on Mars: Poems
I was free, nobody’s daughter, Perfecting an easy weightless laughter.”
― Life on Mars: Poems
“Perhaps a writer doesn’t need to have a clear sense of what her text will do in the world. Perhaps a writer can relax a bit. Perhaps it’s enough to ask a question, and hope, perhaps, to glimpse the meaning of that question in retrospect.”
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
― Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative
“When people we love are suffering, we want to make it better. But sometimes - often, in fact - you can't make it better. I'm reminded of something my supervisor said to me when I was a student chaplain: "Don't just do something. Stand there.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“A secret part of Cora likes the end of the world because it makes her strangeness feel quieter.”
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
― Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng
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