Tananarive Due famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.
The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.
Itâ€™s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.
It needs to connect with the earth. Things that are processed and reprocessed lose their substance.
The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.
Boredom is actually the most plentiful substance in the universe.

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