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1 " Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty. "
― Kathryn Davis , Duplex
2 " The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back. "
3 " There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the orchard too, the fruit, the trunks, an ever-expanding joy that didn’t need to devour anything. "
4 " If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living? "
― Kathryn Davis
5 " Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago in the dark northern woods for instance) with universal radiance. Faithless sons, wars and typhoons, fields of blood, greed and knives: our literature's full of such stories. And yet suppose for an instant that it wasn't the complacent father but his bored daughter who was the Prime Mover; suppose that what came first wasn't an appetite for drama but the urge to awaken it. Mightn't we then permit a single summer in the lives of two bored girls to represent an essential stage in the history of the universe? "
6 " You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. "
7 " ...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole. "
8 " A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh. "
9 " Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana. "
10 " The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne. "
11 " It isn’t time that folds, it’s space. "
12 " In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined. "
― Kathryn Davis , Versailles
13 " According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon – both sides were totally unprepared, not to mention the fact that they had their parts mixed up. The girls were only interested in romance, and the robots in completing a transaction. "
14 " Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that’s what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through – that’s why they love it when we bow our heads. It doesn’t have anything to do with praying. Prayers bore them. "
15 " Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too. "
16 " The proximity of Mary filled him with excitement; he had to work to slow his breathing. A drop, another drop – he was flicking his penis dry. It grew long and thin, the corona pointed and cleft like a hoof. "
17 " It was cool, his finger, being made of titanium, and he used it to stroke her, first on the outside, running it over her pubic hair until she began to moan, and then sliding it inside her. "
18 " She used to think there would be a greater sense of forward movement in her life, but now it seemed like where a person ended up was going to turn out to have everything to do with where she started. "
19 " I’ve heard the band is supposed to be out of this world,” Miss Vicks was saying. "
20 " The crickets were rubbing their hind legs together, unrolling that endless band of sound that when combined with the sound of the sycamore trees losing their heads in the heat-thickened breeze could cause even a girl as unsentimental as Mary to feel like she’d just left something behind on the porch stoop she couldn’t bear to live without. "
