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Ask what she would be if she wasn't a writer, this author replied: "Dead. ↗

— Ursula K. LeGuin

#science-fiction #science

A stitch in time saves uncontrollable blood loss ↗

— Simon Haynes

#science-fiction #science

We are now in a position to determine just what sort of science fiction story this really is. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. ↗

— Eminem

#dealing #got #i #learned #one thing

It was fun to see him becoming sententious again, glorying in a science he had invented, and as positive as a village soothsayer. 'So one should neither give nor receive?' I laughed. 'And if the lover is poor, his mistress indigent, then both she and he must tactfully let themselves and each other die?' 'Let them die,' he repeated. I had accompanied him as far as the revolving glass door of the lobby. 'Let them die,' he said again. 'It's less dangerous. I can swear on my word of honor that I never gave a present or made a loan or an exchange of anything except . . . this . . .' He waved both hands in a complicated gesture which fleetingly indicated his chest, his mouth, his genitals, his thighs. Thanks no doubt to my fatigue, I was reminded of an animal standing on its hind legs and unwinding the invisible. Then he resumed his strictly human significance, opened the door, and easily mingled with the night outside, where the sea was already a little paler than the sky. ↗

— Colette

#gender-relations #sexuality #sidonie-gabrielle-colette #science

This is kaiju!" Yojiro barked. "When did they ever give a damn about adhering to science! ↗

— Hiroshi Yamamoto

#japan #kaiju #monster #science #science

Her vision came into focus and again this time the trees crackled and mocked her. You’re going to die you silly bitch, they seemed to chant. They waved their branches, howling, as the wind whistled through the trails which had suddenly grown icy cold. Kayn’s mind snapped back to reality; she had lost a lot of blood…none of this was real. Children of Ankh ↗

— Kim Cormack

#paranormal-series #science-fiction #sweetsleep #science

It's Halloween, you can tell everyone you're going as your favorite Steampunck character." "I don't even know what that is!" "Because your generation has no taste in speculative science fiction. ↗

— Girl vs Monster

#disney-quotes #girl-vs-monster #halloween #science-fiction #scifi

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs. And we are going to wrong some rights. The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting. But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop. ↗

— John Green

#margo #paper-towns #wrong

Dye a specsuit any color other than the original red, and any stalker would put down five hundred for it without batting an eyelash” “It’s light, comfortable, not too tight, and you don’t sweat in it from the heat. You can go right through a fire in this thing, and no gas will penetrate it. It’s even bulletproof, they say. Of course, fire toxic gas, and bullets -these are only Earth perils. The Zone doesn't have those; in the Zone you have other worries. ↗

— Arkady Strugatsky

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