Ellen Kushner - Time Quotes

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Abjuring love? Real people don't do that. Now you're the one who sounds like someone on a stage. That's not the real world. Real people follow their hearts, wherever it takes them. Real people refuse to be put into a little tiny box. You can say you love me or you don't love me, it doesn't matter; I know you have foresworn nothing except an existence you found intolerable.
She really did smile this time. Now you're making me sound like a heroine. Be honest, Lucius. For all that you go on about the real world with its real people, you don't really want to live in it, either.

Ellen Kushner

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

Ellen Kushner

I thought I would be safe here.
You are. For the first time, he touched her, touched her hand. Safe from everything but paper and ink. Please. Put those down.
Paper and ink. She clutched the books to her ample chest. They're not nothing, Alec. They're pretty much everything to me: the embodiment of ideas, of thought—of free and open thought. Of inquiry and supposition. All of it.

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