#fiction

My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiting is terrible. Waiting to be older is worse than other kinds of waiting because there's nothing you can do to make it happen faster. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#science-fiction #science

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate. ↗

— Paul Di Filippo

#writing #science

A place without meaning is no place to be. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#journey-of-life #location #meaning #path #place

What you call life is but a dream, and reality is relative. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#dream #life #life-and-living #life-experience #real

That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd #Books ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#in-the-shadow-of-sadd #noir #scandinavian-mysteries #steen-langstrup #life

When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life

Power surged through him: unfettered power, unimaginable power. It coursed through him and gave life to his maddened cry, feeding it, making it unnecesssary even to breathe. Deeper and deeper his screm became, until it was the primal voice of the very land itself. It was raw, searing. It was the energy of making and undoing, and he had unleashed it. ↗

— Derek Donais

#magic #power #sci-fictional #life

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.) ↗

— Stephen B. Pearl

#medical #political #science-fiction #thriller #life

*Story of a Girl By:Sara Zarr *Lexile:760 SRC:12 pts. *Personal Issues *Choice of getting a job to move out *Major Choice *In Process of making it happen *It effects her bother his girlfriend and their baby, because they will move out with her too. *Sometimes we need to take choices that will make your life easier and also others. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#life

Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress) ↗

— Belinda McBride

#science-fiction #science