Was Quotes

“Topeka meant, "a good place to find potatoes". That made Dorothy laugh. But any place is what you make it said etta. You've got to make it home. You've got to do it for yourself.... It's difficult because everybody wants to be loved and you think you can't find a home unless you are loved by somebody, anybody. But it's not true. Sometimes you can learn to live without being loved. It's terribly hard, but you can do it. The trick is to remember what it's like to be loved.”
― Geoff Ryman, Was

“It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.”
― Geoff Ryman, Was

“There is no man so unsuited for the task of speaking about memory as I am, for I find scarcely a trace of it in myself, and I do not believe there is another man in the world so hideously lacking in it.”
― Geoff Ryman, Was

“Nice people were not supposed to be able to recognize certain things, because they were supposed to be so untainted that they couldn't even think about them.”
― Geoff Ryman, Was

“What have you learned Dorothy?" he asked her.

Dorothy thought for a moment and said, "I learned to be disappointed and not to hope too much. I learned how to be beaten and how to beat others. I learned that I am worthless and the world is worthless, and that love is a lie and if it's not a lie, then it's wasted."

"They learned you wrong," he said.”
― Geoff Ryman, Was

“All around them, the people worshipped, on their knees. Worshipped what was good, able to worship what was good by deliberately using it to cover up the bad.”
― Geoff Ryman, Was