Jack o'Lantern Girl Quotes

“It is a categorical imperative that all people should have their brains eaten by philosophical zombies,” says Zombie Kant.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“I have a sword,” the hero points out. “All he has is a tie.” The monster adjusts his shiny tie.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“That’s good,” says the octopus. “But what about Mr. Schiff?” Mr. Schiff hits the ground. Thump! “It’s okay,” Meredith says. “Mr. Schiff can fly!”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“In the old days, they didn’t know very much about the world. But they made maps anyway. If they had to map something they couldn’t, they just drew whatever they felt like and wrote, “Here there be dragons.” Someone found this story, once, by asking Google whether dragons are real. If you tried to map the world today, you could detail every inch of the world’s surface. Satellites could show you every forest and every bush, every mountain and every field. They could show you your house and mine. There are no empty spaces left. We don’t know very much about the world; and there are things to map of it besides its surface.   Can broken things be remade? Can destinies change? Is it worth the risk of hope?   Important questions, but one can only shrug, you see.   Here, there be dragons.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“Pirates don’t board Santa’s ship. It’s a law of the sea.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“A small body can hold a deep emptiness,” the monster says. “It’s not really very much about scale. It’s more like — how many gods can you possibly need to patch closed the holes in your world? How hungry can you be, how desperate with need? And that’s like the thing with the angels on the pin, the interesting question isn’t really ‘how many gods can I make you need?’ but whether it’s finite or infinite in number.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“The dead are not actually terribly well bound by time, since it is not intended for their consumption.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“In the absence of space-time Jenna had imagined that she was going to be coughing up the next stone forever, and to have not coughed it up yet forever, and to have already coughed it up forever. This demonstrates her lack of understanding of space-time and suggests that perhaps the breakup was actually a pretty good idea for everybody concerned.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“It turns out that a five-year-old girl does not possess the necessary competence to play cat’s cradle with the divine fire of her soul.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“Live in the world of fumbling and stumbling and failure and folly. Live in the world of screaming in hopeless panic and wounding yourself with your own sword. Live like a person. People can live. People can even win. Heroes can’t.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“You shouldn’t die if your mother says not to,” the wind says. “That’s basic childhood theory.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“Eating lean, healthy children is immoral! I won’t have it in my house.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“I’m going to be a wolf,” she says, uncertainly. The toad does not agree.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl

“This is what it means to be a wolf. This is the promise written in our bones. If we’re fast, if we’re smart, if we’re strong. If our senses are sharp and our footfalls soft, we’ll live.”
― Jenna Katerin Moran, Jack o'Lantern Girl