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Small animals are a great problem. I wish God had never created small animals, or else that He had made them so they could talk, or else that He'd given them better faces. Space. Take moths. They fly at the lamp and burn themsleves, and then they fly...

The Summer Book

Three days a week she helped at the Manor Nursing Home, where people proved their keenness by reciting received analyses of current events. All the Manor residents watched television day and night, informed to the eyeballs like everyone else and rush...

The Maytrees

But when the wizard is onstage as the main character, you have to adopt what I call the Jack Vance Rule. I call it this because Jack Vance is the first author successfully and adroitly to have applied this rule in his The Dying Earth. The Jack Vance ...

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

Franklin, I was absolutely terrified of having a child. Before I got pregnant, my visions of child rearing- reading stories about cabooses with smiley faces at bedtime, feeding glop into slack mouths- all seemed like pictures of someone else. I dread...

We Need to Talk About Kevin

I was finally beginning to perceive that no matter how many dead people I might see, or people at the instant of their death, I would never manage to grasp death, that very moment, precisely in itself. It was one thing or the other: either you are de...

The Kindly Ones

Intriguing isn't it? One day you are the king of your world. And the next day, you stand aside, watching it all burn. Ashes slipping out of your hand, you just stand and stare, your glassy gaze fixed on something no one else could see, no one else co...

Aleena Yasin

You always know more than you think you know without being aware of it. You always remember best what has hurt most. Memory is a reflex of the pain. Knowledge is the memory of the pain combined with the unconsciousness which we 'rationalize' via drea...

Love

Even dogs know how important it is to hear somebody else breathing.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

Catching Fire

Indulge me, John. Cynicism and foul language are the only vices I'm presently capable of. Everything else takes energy or money.

Children of God

I'm tired of watching you be in love with someone else someone who will never love you back, not the way I do.

City of Glass

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

Change of Heart

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions

I don't think there's anything wrong with borrowing someone else's faith to get you through until you get enough on your own.

Collision

Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.

City of Light

[...]How can a great civilization have destroyed itself so completely?" "Perhaps,"said Apollo, "by being materially great and materially wise and nothing else.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.

Cinder

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Coyote Waits

If you were anyone else, your nuts would be taking a long vacation, and the destination would be out of your mouth

Dead, Undead, or Somewhere in Between