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you know how old scifi is. [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote that will haunt me for years and years] [quote t

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The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

(the lathe of heaven by ursula k le guin)

Why, she thought, is it harder to tell other human beings about intimate actions - actions we share, after all - than it would be to tell someone completely alien? Because if an alien said, "How extremely strange," it would hurt less than if a human said the same thing?

(metaphase by vonda n. mcintyre)

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

(the dispossessed by ursula k le guin)

I was his murderer. What relationship could be more intimate?

(the unfortunate fall by raphael carter)

"Do you... do you love him?" I said. "He's my father." "Does that mean you love him?" "It means I can't tell," said Theo.

(bone dance by emma bull)

Skip looked at her with bloodshot weary cautious eyes. "Hello, monster," he said softly. "Hello, monster," she said back, and smiled for the first time since before her operation. "There's too little of you and too much of me."

(woman on the edge of time by marge piercy)

If there's no word for it, how do you think about it?

(babel-17 by samuel r. delany)

"If only they had left me something!" she whispered. Still trembling, she thought, If only they had left me Martín, or Claud, or Angelina, if they had even left me Dolly and Nita, I would have minded my own business. I'd have bowed my head and kept down. I was
not born and raised to fight battles, but to be modest and gentle and still. Only one person to love. Just one little corner of loving of my own. For that love I'd have borne it all and I'd never have fought back. I would have obeyed. I would have agreed that I'm sick, that I'm sick to be poor and sick to be sick and sick to be hungry and sick to be lonely and sick to be robbed and used. But you were so greedy, so cruel! One of them, just one, you could have left me! But I have nothing. Why shouldn't I strike back? Yet her hands shook with fear. She lay cold and trembling, all the night.

(woman on the edge of time by marge piercy)

What's the use of having a god in the machine if you don't holler for it to come out now and then?

(bone dance by emma bull)

Spiritual yearning and the sense of sacredness they knew, but they did not know anything holier than the world,

(the telling by ursula k. le guin)

Victoria wiped her eyes. Her chin stopped quivering. "Sorry," she said, trying to smile. "I didn't mean to do that. I miss you already. I can't imagine..." She stopped. "Then don't," J.D. said, chiding her gently. "Imagine me coming home."

(metaphase by vonda n. mcintyre)

*correction the fourth book is called the fortunate fall. idk why i keep misspelling it as unfortunate 💀

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