Sister Mine Quotes

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“Suck all the juice this life will give!”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“I sometimes wish I could fine people every time they use black street slang to prove how hip they are.”
“Yeah, I know what you mean.”
“Just charge them a residual. White people, Chinese people; even those boho Obamanegroes with their braided hemp necklaces, you understand me? … Except for dirt-poor white people surviving the life in some hood somewhere. And those Filipino prisoners you see on YouTube dancing to Michael Jackson songs. I figure those guys have earned the right to drop the occasional ‘homie’ now and then …”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“Why? Because I played god with you? Baby girl, that’s what I do. And not lightly, either.” He thought about that for a second. “Well, yes, sometimes lightly. You know what they say about all work and no play.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“In the back of my mind’s eye, everything had a fuzzy green haze on it, like a brand-new tennis ball. The world was getting its Shine on.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“She calls herself Fleet ‘cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?”
“British Colombia?”
He looked sad. “No, Before Crack.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“The stairs were steel-reinforced slabs of concrete, worn down by years of foot traffic, each step canted a slightly different angle from its neighbours. I like that. I liked things that had been solidly made and that wore the evidence of hard use, of survival.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“And what, exactly, am I giving as I'm learning to do this giving thing?”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine