48 Quotes by Sam J. Miller

Wood smells like wealth

Soq was beyond gender. They put it on like most people put on clothes. Some days butch and some days queen, but always Soq, always the same and always uncircumscribable underneath it all.

If the twentieth century was shaped by warring ideologies, and the twenty-first was a battle of digital languages, our present age is defined by duelling approaches to oceanic city engineering.

She thinks I’m a child who needs to be protected from the horrors of grown-ups, because she somehow forgot that the world of children has its own horrors. And that the world of teenagers holds the horrors of both.

Stories are where we find ourselves, where we find the others who are like us. Gather enough stories and soon you’re not alone; you are an army.

I used to imagine Better was a place you could get to. A moment when I would look around and see that Everything Was Fine. But that’s not how this works. Being better isn’t a battle you fight and win. Feeling okay is a war, one that lasts your whole life, and the only way to win is to keep on fighting.

Pretty people can’t be relied upon. They have too many options.

Money is a mind, the oldest artificial intelligence. Its prime directives are simple, its programming endlessly creative. Humans obey it unthinkingly, with cheerful alacrity. Like a virus, it doesn’t care if it kills its host.

Many a magnificent supervillain was motivated by revenge.