Цитаты из книг — Чарли Джейн Андерс

This was a metaphor for how it was with Laurence, Patricia realized. He would be supportive and friendly as long as something seemed like a grand adventure. But the moment you got stuck or things were weirder than expected, he would pull away. You could never predict which Laurence you would get.

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

<...> Сколько всего книг находилось в этом здании, не знал никто, даже его хозяйка - Молли. Но если бы вам не удалось отыскать там какую-то книгу, то, возможно, она еще просто не была написана. Две абсолютно одинаковые тропинки вели к двум абсолютно одинаковым дверям, на порогах лежали два соломенных коврика с…

“Hey, Bert,” the giant steel Patricia said, loudspeaker-like. “Sorry to bust in on you. I got help from a friend of mine, who does dreamwalking. I’m going to be washing his car. Anyway. I wanted to make sure you were okay. I’m tying up all my loose ends.” “Why would you do that?” Big Patricia blinked, as though she didn’t…

"Why would anybody be a Satanist anyway? I don`t get it. You can`t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you`re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing." Everybody else had gone inside. They were ringing the second bell. "I guess if you`re a Satanist, you believe that God is the bad guy, and…

We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.

...no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

Much like the inability to distinguish between “x-or” and “and/or,” the lack of delineation between “x-we” and “in-we” was a conspiracy of obfuscation, designed to create awkwardness and exacerbate peer pressure—because people tried to include you in their “we” without your consent, or you thought you were included and…

Molly had wanted Phoebe to be within easy reach of California if America ever started seriously following through on its threats to enforce all of its broadly written laws against immorality. But more than that, Phoebe deserved to be surrounded by all the stories, and every type of person, and all of the ways of looking…

"What happened to you?" "Honestly?" Patricia shrugged. "I had some great teachers, in San Francisco. But the main thing was, I fell in love with a man, and he built a doomsday machine."

I think that the most basic things of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel.

"I wonder how many other things in our world are just the shadows of things in other places," Laurence said, forming the thought as he spoke. "I mean, we always suspected that gravity was so weak in our world because most of it was in another dimension. But what else? Light? Time? Some of our emotion? I mean, the longer I…

You don`t push people away — you`re trying to do everything for people, and then they don`t get to do anything for you.

"So how did you stop dreaming about rockets?" Patricia asked. "I think I just got bored with it," Isobel said. "Boredom is the mind`s scar tissue."

Nature doesn`t 'find ways' to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small. It`s more that nature`s playing field is full of traps.

"I do everything alone," Patricia said. "I went to this small, claustrophobic school called Eistley Maze. So I`m still kind of enjoying going solo in a big city where nobody knows who I am. You know? I feel like that`s what being a grown-up ought to be like."

"My life plan involves never understanding my parents," Patricia said. "That`s like the cornerstone. You met them, you saw what they were like. I`m dedicated to not being the person they wanted to make me."