Martha Wells famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. Itâ€™s a groundling thing.
-- Martha Wells

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We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.
Future's the only flower worth tending in this earth, where I sow my words daily: and you know, these good trees bear fruit round the year, discreetly, moving along the waterways and four seasons of the faithful sun.
I love you girl...to the moon and back.
If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!
Iâ€™m in no hurry: the sun and the moon arenâ€™t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, Iâ€™m not there in an instant.
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldnâ€™t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed

Martha Wells famous quotes

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