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“The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.”

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Esther M. Friesner is an American author known for her science fiction and fantasy works. Born on July 16, 1951, she has been active in the science fiction community since the 1980s. more

“She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.”

“I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.”

Writing Book Written Transcribing

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel

“Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.”

Years Self Life Is Dialogue Your Future Future Self

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.”

Knows Ends Know How I Am Pretty

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“All of her heart, a meaningless phrase, but correct and precise, too. She used her heart to love him, not her head, and not her words and not her thoughts or ideas or feelings or any other vehicle or object or device people use to deliver love or love-like things.”

People Heart Ideas Use Feelings Used Objects Phrases Devices Meaningless Vehicle Precise

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.”

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel

“Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.”

Men Self Decades Avoiding True Self

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

“life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.”

Way Mystery

Author:Khalil Gibran

“A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.”

World Creatures Creating Machines

Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?”

Different Memories Rolling Pondering Wallowing Rolling Over

Book:How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

Source: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel

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