Kij Johnson Quotes

#1. All those losses, but this one at least he could prevent. "When the time comes," he said: "When you sail. I will come with you.

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#2. If {Death} comes for you?" he said. "Would you be so sanguine then?"
She laughed and the pensiveness was gone. "No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.

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#3. The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.

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#4. in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not - and yet she regarded herself in the glass a little ruefully. To have that choice removed by time and age was painful.

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#5. Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

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#6. We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

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

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#8. Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

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#9. He says there are millions of stars, Raba. Millions.

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#10. Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.'
'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.

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#11. We cannot protect people from the lessons we ourselves have learned.

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#12. I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.

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#13. Ferrys die, but there is always a Ferry to cross the mist. Bridges and ferryfolk, they are not so different, Kit.

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#14. There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

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#15. Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

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#16. That's not a goal," Kit said.
"Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a thousand small ones?

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#17. Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

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#18. Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that's you.

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#19. There would be sadness and nightmares. And there would be lovemaking and the holding close of children and friends and dogs
affirmations of life in the cold wet night.

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#20. These cables will fail eventually, these stones will fall - but not the dream of crossing the mist, the dream of connection. Now that we know it can happen, it will always be here.

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#21. Love and memory and thought and dream ~
My favorite poems have never been written in words.

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#22. Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

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