“The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, quote from Beauty
“You have to notice people to be that sure about them.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, quote from Beauty
“And in the end, unable to feel terror, mankind will go, we will all go down, down, down to happyland.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, quote from Beauty
“Le he pedido a Bill que me lo explicara y él me ha hablado del crecimiento demográfico y la Iglesia católica y la lluvia ácida y la destrucción de los bosques tropicales para conseguir más comida. Todo el mundo discute sobre el tema, me ha dicho. Los economistas y hombres de negocios dicen que nada va mal. Los ecologistas y expertos en población dicen que se acerca el final. Mientras discuten, las cosas seguirán con la misma tendencia hasta que lleguemos al punto sin retorno, que será en algún momento de los próximos cien años. A partir de entonces, no habrá más espacio al aire libre porque cada centímetro cuadrado de tierra será necesario para producir comida.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, quote from Beauty
“Me ha hablado de la "presión social", lo que por lo visto quiere decir dejar que los demás te dirijan la vida.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, quote from Beauty
Sheri S. Tepper
Born place: in Littleton, Colorado
Born date July 16, 1929
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“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.”
― George MacDonald, quote from Phantastes
“I’m sorry you never got my note that night,” said Minty. “I was arranging for us to go and live with them. You’ll like that, won’t you?” she asked Maia.
Maia was silent, looking down at her plate.
“Of course she will,” jeered Finn. “Sergei will be able to kneel at her feet like a person in a book.”
― Eva Ibbotson, quote from Journey to the River Sea
“I would have loved to know how it felt, just once, to have something fall apart and see options instead of endings.”
― Sarah Dessen, quote from Saint Anything
“This was perfect dictator-logic: we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy.”
― Anna Funder, quote from Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
“(...) Poco después del enorme éxito de "La mujer de blanco", se me preguntó cuál era el secreto de mi éxito; yo, modestamente, le dije a mi interlocutor:
1. Busca una idea central.
2. Idea unos personajes.
3. Deja que los personajes desarrollen los incidentes.
4. Empieza la historia por el principio.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Drood
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