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born 1955 United States

Patrice Ann 'Pat' Murphy (born March 9, 1955) is an award-winning American science writer and author of science fiction and fantasy novels.

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“Imaginary solutions work quite well, as long as you realize that problems are also imaginary.”

There and Back Again (1999)

“You’ve passed the first test of leadership. You’ve disagreed with me.”

There and Back Again (1999)

“Picture postcards never show the bugs,” I told her. “Stinging ants, wasps, fleas, roaches the size of your hand. Postcards never show the heat.”

The Falling Woman (1986)

“Let it be. These things have a way of becoming clear over time,“ Gyro said. And then he shrugged. “Or not. In the end, it doesn’t really matter does it?”

There and Back Again (1999)

Metaphor is reality once removed.

The Falling Woman (1986)

What do you do when you are falling? Do you reach out and try to grab for support? If you aren’t careful, you will pull others down with you. Unless you are very careful.

The Falling Woman (1986)

Every point is a turning point.

There and Back Again (1999)

“I trust to luck to get me by. Luck and destiny.” His eyes were bright with reflected moonlight. “Sometimes they serve me well.”

Piero was the sort of person that every religion needs but no religion likes. Thoughtful, rational, scientific. He asked questions and did not accept the easy answers on faith.

There and Back Again (1999)

Do not look for revelations in the ancient ruins. You will find here only what you bring: bits of memory, wisps of the past as thin as clouds in the summer, fragments of stone that are carved with symbols that sometimes almost make sense.

The Falling Woman (1986)

Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?

There and Back Again (1999)

“You may learn a few things,” she said. “And that’s always good.”

There and Back Again (1999)

Gyro smiled. “There’s an old pataphysical saying: ‘An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.’ Adventure is never convenient. And everything is an adventure, if you take the right perspective.”
“So everything is inconvenient?” Bailey grumbled.
“Oh, yes. That’s exactly it! Life is terribly inconvenient, which makes it quite entertaining.”

There and Back Again (1999)

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