Connie Willis Quotes

Maybe the conference was an inversion layer of another kind, bringing me face-to-face with old friends and old places. With cancer and the Gap and the Old Man, railing about newfangled players and spicy food. Bringing me face-to-face early with death and old age and change.

It was about a girl who helps an ugly old woman who turns out to be a good fairy in disguise. Inner values versus shallow appearances.

It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts.

Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow.

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.