122 Quotes by Charlie Jane Anders

"The only thing that makes life tolerable is that people forget most of the stupid things I say as soon as I finish saying them."

"We could not ‘break’ nature if we spent a million years trying. This planet is a speck, and we are specks on a speck. But our little habitat is fragile, and we cannot live without it."

"Now Laurence felt self-conscious. People should not see him having a crazy argument with his Caddy – with Peregrine. He hustled away from the beach, away from Judah and the tiny hippie outpost, heading Sloatward. Losing himself in the night, in the Outer Outer Sunset."

"You celebrated the small victories, and you dreamed of the big ones to come."

"But the real point is, how do you ever know your own emotions are spontaneous and genuine, and not just a programmed set of responses?"

"Maybe you don’t get to choose how you make peace, or what kind of peace you make. You count yourself lucky if peace doesn’t run away from you."

"The trap that can be ignored is no trap."

"I found a wounded bird,” Patricia said. “It can’t fly, its wing is ruined."

"I am, as you know, a fan of nature, said Reginald. And yet, nature doesn’t find ways to do anything. Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small."

"Patricia decided there was nothing to do but climb the nearest tree and see if she could see anything from it. Like a road. Or a house. Or some landmark that Dirrp might recognize."