Standback

“Now, Reverend Father Abbot asked me to make the following announcements:

"First, for the next three days we shall sing the Little Office of Our Lady before Matins, asking her intercession for peace.

"Second, general instructions for civil defense in the event of a space-strike or missile-attack alert are available on the table by the entrance. Everybody take one.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Two of our opossums are missing.”
― James Tiptree Jr., The Women Men Don't See

“He had mistaken his place in this story. The realization filled him with both terror and a little relief, the relief faint but present. He hoped the feeling would someday give him a measure of peace.”
― Cadwell Turnbull, The Lesson

“I don’t have any control over what memories I get, when I get them. Except every single one of them is something I would have rather forgotten.
-- "Erase, Erase, Erase”
― Elizabeth Bear