"But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“In terms of America, I think any profound consideration is bound to return us to the notion of twins because, though you certainly can contend there are many Americas, our history has been binary from the beginning, with its hairline fracture down the country's center between what American has wanted to be and what America has been. That fracture is slavery, of course. To some extent it's still slavery, in that collectively we refuse to come to grips with the American fact of slavery.”

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“Eight full lives,â€ I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. â€œEight full lives and I never found anyone I would stay on a planet for, anyone I would follow when they left. I never found a partner. Why now? Why you? You're not of my species. How can you be my partner?â€ â€œIt's a strange universe,â€ he murmured. â€œIt's not fair,â€ I complained, echoing Sunny's words. It wasn't fair. How could I find this, find loveâ€“now, in this eleventh hourâ€“and have to leave it? Was it fair that my soul and body couldn't reconcile? Was it fair that I had to love Melanie, too?”
“If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!”
“Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .”
“If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .”
“All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.”
“All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2013). “Falling Through Space”, p.26, Open Road Media
“Only when you dream it you can do it.”

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