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The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VIII: Bright Segment QUOTES

The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VIII: Bright Segment QUOTES

1 " He let a vision of April grow and fill the world. (...) He saw April at the spaceport, holding him in the dark shadows of the blockhouse while the sky flamed above them. We’ll go out like that soon, soon, Tod. Squeeze me, squeeze me … Ah, he’d said, who needs a ship?
Another April, part of her in a dim light as she sat writing; her hair, a crescent of light loving her cheek, a band of it on her brow; then she had seen him and turned, rising, smothered his first word with her mouth. Another April wanting to smile, waiting; and April asleep, and once April sobbing because she could not find a special word to tell him what she felt for him … "

― Theodore Sturgeon , The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VIII: Bright Segment

2 " Eddy, I’ve made my own way since I was a kid, and when I marry it’s going to be because the man I love and a girl named Tina are traveling together in the same direction at approximately the same speed, and each under his own power. I won’t be steered, towed, nor provided with an icebreaker. (...) "

― Theodore Sturgeon , The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Volume VIII: Bright Segment