180 Quotes by G. Willow Wilson

Plastic and electricity,” he said with a look of disgust. “This is how you people think you will ascend to the heaven. But if you climb too high, younger brother, the angels will ask you where you’re going.

Good is not a thing you are. It’s a thing you do.

Birds make music, river reeds in wind make music. Babies make music. God would not forbid something that is the sharia of innocent creatures.

Alif found himself succumbing to the silence of the place, a quiet so open and broad that it seemed almost to roar, as though it was not silence at all but music in some ancient inaudible key. His eyes drifted shut and he slept without dreaming.

We have reached a state of constant reinvention. Revolutions have moved off the battlefield and on to home computers. Nothing shocks one anymore. We are living in a post-fictional era. Fictional governments are accepted without comment, and we can sit in a mosque and have a debate about the fictional pork a fictional character consumes in a video game, with every gravity we would accord something quite real.

Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it’s even had a right to prove itself.

In the four years I’ve been doing this stuff for money, I’ve had less than forty-eight hours of downtime. Did you know that? And now I’m a ghost in the machine. By next week all the hacks and geeks and hats I call my friends will have forgotten who I am. That is the nature of this business. That is the Internet.

Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.

Though you have struggled, wandered, traveled far, It is yourselves you see, and what you.