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The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016 QUOTES

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016 QUOTES

1 " There is nothing, he tells me, more odious than a German. However, their women are seductive, and they make the world's most beautiful music. My employer sings me a German song. He sounds like a buffalo in distress. Afterward he makes me read to him from the Bible. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

2 " oh do you remember when we were courting when my head lay upon your breast you could make me believe by the falling of your arm that the sun rose in the west "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

3 " There are hardly any women in Iram. This is a problem, because without women nothing happens. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

4 " Science fiction and fantasy, though they seem to be about the future or fictional worlds, are always at their core really about the problems and issues of today. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

5 " Surely love cannot exist outside of time. It depends upon small objects. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

6 " When the worst thing you can possibly imagine happens, you’re free from the fear of it for the rest of your life. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

7 " We’d been swallowing fire for so long, fire and violence and hate, and in that moment of panic and fear and anger everything fell into place to feed the fire back. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

8 " There’s all sorts of information about it online, postmortem predation. First they eat your lips, your ears, the end of your nose. Your eyelids. The flare of your nostrils. Fingertips. All the places a girlfriend would kiss you first. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

9 " KIJ JOHNSON The Apartment Dweller’s Bestiary FROM Clarkesworld Magazine "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

10 " His cancer was rare, they told him. Even rarer for it to be in both eyes, still rarer to be so aggressive. It felt like a great bitter joke at one point, that out of all the people in the world he had beaten every probability, but instead of a lottery jackpot he’d won cancer. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

11 " He’s never thought of himself as vain. He’s always been decent-looking, but was arrogant enough to believe it didn’t matter. That he didn’t care. That appearance isn’t what’s important. Until now, when he looks at his face and sees a freak. Now he realizes he is vain, has always been vain, and maybe there’s not a damn thing wrong with that. He feels a sudden stab of guilt and empathy. He’s only been able to tell himself he’s indifferent to his looks because he’s been lucky enough to be satisfied with them. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

12 " For months now she’s been fantasizing about being more than she is, but it isn’t coming true. What if she could step into the fast, fast world without being missed? What she wants now, more than anything, is a placeholder, someone to keep her life intact while she goes on a little reconnaissance trip. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

13 " The idea that he’d be entering this world involuntarily—the enhancers’ realm, the political imbroglio—disturbed him. That he’d have to claim a stance, take a side, defend the technological advances by virtue of their medical purpose. Be grouped with the believers by default. He "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

14 " There’s nothing wrong, but everything’s wrong: she’d like that on a T-shirt, please. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

15 " You may think that it’s fair to conclude that since the hatter loves his hare, it’s clear that the hare loves his hatter. You are mistaken. It’s not the same thing a bit! You might as well say that dressing a wound is the same as wounding a dress. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

16 " RACHEL SWIRSKY Tea Time "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

17 " LIZ ZIEMSKA The Mushroom Queen "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

18 " wish I could bring a bathroom door from the library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, but how would I take it off, how could I get it out of the building? I’m picturing myself in the snow and ice, sliding down State Street with the big gray door clasped somehow under my arm. Impossible. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

19 " to be loved is not the same as to be known. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016

20 " It likes being read to, especially Henry James’s lesser works. "

― Karen Joy Fowler , The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2016