“A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.”
― Gish Jen, quote from Typical American
“One left; things shifted in one's absence; one returned to something else. Time frustrated all. There was no sneaking past its rough guard, even to get to one's own yard of intimacies.”
― Gish Jen, quote from Typical American
“Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.”
― Gish Jen, quote from Typical American
“He was like a nation in crisis, looking back, and back and back — its history might be ugly, but its past shone perfect.”
― Gish Jen, quote from Typical American
“Of course he bothers me. He's my husband.”
― Gish Jen, quote from Typical American
Gish Jen
Born place: in Long Island, New York, The United States
Born date August 12, 1955
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“Such thinking is sheer speculation, but the laws of physics allow for the possibility of opening a hole in space by concentrating enough energy at a single point, until we access the space-time foam and wormholes emerge connecting our universe to a baby universe.”
― Michio Kaku, quote from Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
“But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from You're The One That I Don't Want
“Regular people said they couldn’t tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people and went on inside their heads.”
― Karen Traviss, quote from Hard Contact
“My boss is dictating my preventive hangover care, and I just used the word swords in reference to his obvious cockfight with the man I just made out with in a public hallway. I am truly in an alternate universe.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, quote from If I Were You
“If heartbreak had a sound, it would be her sob.”
― Jay McLean, quote from More Than Forever
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