From the Acknowledgements in Jo Walton’s novel, Everybody’s Perfect:
This past is not another country, the past happened right here, and kept on happening, and segues into the present, Greek history did not stop with Alexander the Great but is still going on. Periods and centuries and borders are entirely artificial. And people in history did not know what was going to happen next, any more than we do. They did not know if they were in a back alley of historical interest, like that Genoese empire of the Aegean, of front and centre in the spotlight like Socrates. History isn’t over, we shape it ourselves, and then historians shape it for future consumption.
From “Little Radish,” by A.G. Slatter, collected in The Sourdough Compendium:
‘I’m not a witch,’ I said.
‘You’re a woman, aren’t you?’
From Murder at the Spirit Lounge, by Jess Kidd:
Aren’t memories like cats, either impossible to put out, or resistant to all attempts to call them to you?
From The Poet Empress, by Shen Tao:
Everyone who tells a story leaves a part of themselves inside it.
