34 Quotes by Kij Johnson

That night and for years afterward, she had envisioned another dream land, built from the imaginings of powerful women dreamers. Perhaps it would have fewer gods, she thought as she watched the moon vanish over the horizon, leaving her in the darkness of the ninety-seven stars.

Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that’s you.

I say this and it is short and sharp, without elegance, like a bark; but I have no idea how else to start. I am only a fox: I have no elegances of language.

He loved who he was: Randolph Carter, master dreamer, adventurer. To him, she had been landscape, an articulate crag he could ascend, a face to put to his place. When were women ever anything but footnotes to men’s tales?

Sam has rolled to his side, waiting patiently for Linna to remember to scratch him. Live forever, she thinks, and wills his twisted spine and legs straight and well.

Everyone wanted to tell their stories and to know where they fit in their own fudoki. She was not that different.

He’s not from Ulthar. I thought I said: he was special. He’s from the waking world. That’s where he’s taking her.