Slotting Quotes

#1. In so much SF, either gender roles are the ones we're used to in the here and now, only transported to the future, or else they're supposedly different, but characters still are slotting into various stereotypes.

Ann Leckie

#2. If I had known, would I have gone back sooner? If there was an audible reshuffle and click every time my path was altered, some Jumanji-like close-up of a game piece slotting into place, would it have changed our fate? It could have been that moment or a million before it; I'll never know.

Vikki Wakefield

#3. I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

Willie McCovey

#4. So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman

Charlaine Harris

#5. I think there are narratives going on all the time that we think of as tangential - up until they turn out to be deciding factors in our lives.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#6. I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

Fay Vincent

#7. [Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.

Carol Tavris

#8. Time: the word tolled like the bells of a church. Fonny was doing: time. In six months time, our baby would be here. Somewhere, in time, Fonny and I had met: somewhere, in time, we had loved; somewhere, no longer in time, but, now, totally, at time's mercy, we loved.

James Baldwin