Anyone who puts on a crown, even if only as an experiment, will end up looking for a kingdom.
~Frankenstein in Baghdad, Ahmed Saadawi
Category: Quotes
i want you
~Modern Locket, Shy Watson (2021)
to succumb to
human circumstance
for me
Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time.
~Sisters, Daisy Johnson
The illusion of safety was an invention of the West.
~Build Your House Around My Body, Violet Kupersmith
I saw you, as if in the middle of a sentence…
From Out of Some Other Paradise by Alex Dimitrov (2017)
“before the invention of boundaries (which was the invention of fences, and also the invention of countries – countries being the invention of men wearing clothes the colour of trees, patrolling the arbitrary lines, the dark promise of their rifles);
before the invention of stamps (which was the invention of bureaucracy, which was the invention of embassies, which was the invention of old women gathered hopelessly on Hope Road, the quartz of their sweat glistening on their foreheads)”
~from “Here That Was Here Before” by Kei Miller
“creative output of any kind depends upon a steady stream of tiny self-delusions — guardrails to keep yourself from veering into a pit of self-doubt and despair…”
R.E. Hawley
“We order our lives with barely held stories…”
Michael Ondaatje, Warlight
we are not doomed yet
juggle the numbers
some are doomed
but not the 3 of us
or not the 3 of us
just yet
or maybe 1 of us,
the smallest,
the 1 of us
still learning
numbers,
who doesn’t know
what 2 of us
are keeping to ourselves
~from Alphabet, by Ailbhe Darcy (2018)
“In truth, Luddism and science fiction concern themselves with the same questions: not merely what the technology does, but who it does it for and who it does it to.”
Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature