Rebecca Romney > Rebecca's Quotes

“The sign that something does matter to us is that we lose our steadiness.”
― Adam Phillips, On Balance

“We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.”
― Adam Phillips, On Balance

“[Science fiction's] most important use, I submit, is a means of dramatizing social inquiry, as providing a fictional mode in which cultural tendencies can be isolated and judged.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

“Let complication thrive.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

“It is a poor mind that is never in conflict.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction

“You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky