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Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

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I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

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We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

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Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

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Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

Kij Johnson

Kij Johnson

Kij Johnson

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Born: January 20, 1960 (age 64)

Bio: Kij Johnson is an American writer of fantasy. She is a faculty member at the University of Kansas.

Known for:

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016)
The Fox Woman (2000)
Fudoki (2003)
At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories (2012)
The Man Who Bridged the Mist (2011)

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