Joan Slonczewski Quotes

born 1956 United States

Joan Lyn Slonczewski (born in 1956) is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel.

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A thousand fools believe a lie, and it’s good as truth.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

A life postponed too long might never be lived.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

She tended to keep her eyes half closed, as if full sight of the world’s absurdity might be too much to bear.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

“Magic is nonsense.”
“Magic is anything you don’t understand.”

A Door into Ocean (1986)

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

She watched the indigo sky, and the stars coming out tranquil as ever, as if this were any ordinary evening. Only humans knew what an evil time this was.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

“I can’t change what I am ovenight.”
“Nor can I. And yet, one can’t stop changing, either.”

A Door into Ocean (1986)

Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

Death can be hastened but never shared.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

Death hastens those who hasten death.

A Door into Ocean (1986)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Joan Slonczewski (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.