122 Quotes by Charlie Jane Anders

The trap that can be ignored is no trap. A trap that doesn't make you want to fall in isn't much of a trap. And once you're caught, you shouldn't be able to ignore the trap because you're stuck. So a trap that you can pay no attention to is a failure.

...no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

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.

When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire

And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.

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.

Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.