Charlie Jane Anders Quotes
Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.
Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.
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.
And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.
When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire
Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.
When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.
That’s the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.
Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.
You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.
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.
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.
Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?
As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.