Charlie Jane Anders, All The Birds In The Sky Quotes
When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.
Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
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.
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.
Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.
Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.
Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.
And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.