Pat Cadigan

Quotes

• “That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you.Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.”
• “If you need someone to believe something, make them go for a walk with you. Walking takes up most of the energy they’d use to disbelieve you.”
• “There were those who insisted this had already happened, but they could never come up with any solid examples, only vague stories involving the cousin of a daughter of a friend-of-a-friend who overheard someone on an all-night bus telling someone else about it.”
• “Technology disgusts me. My senses tell me what I need to know. The rest is noise.”
• “I pushed her back hard. “You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!”She looked at me like I’d slapped her.“Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. “It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.””
• “Everybody wants to be somebody but nobody wants to be just anybody.”

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