The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017 Quotes

“The experience of living is a creative act, the personal construction of meaning for the individual, and death is the final return to meaninglessness. Thus, the act of killing is the ultimate abnegation of the human experience, a submission to the chaos and violence of the natural world. To kill, we must either admit the futility of our own life or deny the significance of the victim’s.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

“What good does it do to be valuable if nobody values you?”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

“St. Oscar, keep your mighty lid closed over me. Look grouchily but kindly upon me and protect me as I travel through the infinite trashcan of your world. Show me the beautiful usefulness of your Blessed Rubbish. Let me not be Taken Out before I find my destiny.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

“If believing something makes your life that much better, then by all means go ahead and believe.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

“There’s always the right answer, the wrong answer that you want to pick anyway, the silly answer, and the answer that leads to the inevitable tragedy of human experience.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017

“He was like a golden retriever. She understood the appeal, but that didn’t mean she wanted to take him home.”
― John Joseph Adams, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017