Mark Schiffer

“Having a world unfold in one’s head is the fundamental SF experience. It’s a lot of what I read for. Delany has a long passage about how your brain expands while reading the sentence “The red sun is high, the blue low”—how it fills in doubled purple shadows on the planet of a binary star. I think it goes beyond that, beyond the physical into the delight of reading about people who come from other societies and have different expectations.”
― Jo Walton, What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy

“she had borrowed hope at a ruinous interest rate—one that she had no chance of paying back.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“Edmund simply sank down and lay on his face doing nothing at all and not even caring what was going to happen next provided they would let him lie still.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2)

“The hangover is a fair trade for being so immobilized one cannot do anything stupid for a little while.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion