Psion Quotes

“To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.”
― Joan D. Vinge, Psion

“Jule was a poet—poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence.”
― Joan D. Vinge, Psion

“I stuck my aching leg out into the warm sunlight and pulled my paper coat tighter to my chest. Then I twisted to look out the window, letting my eyes follow the flow of clouds and towers, pretending I was alone. I looked down, and down, and thought about falling.”
― Joan D. Vinge, Psion

“Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn’t mind.”
― Joan D. Vinge, Psion