“ It was only ninety-four pages long, and so obviously wretchedly written it was destined to become a huge fad Connie Willis
“ Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself? Connie Willis
“ Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, The Cookiepants Hy… Connie Willis
“ Good. Drink your tea, he ordered. It will make you feel better.Nothing will make me feel better, she thought, but she drank it down. It was hot and sweet. Mr. Humphreys must have put his entire month'… Connie Willis
“ There’s no need to say anything to Mr. Turing. I was the one who wasn’t watching where I was going You were the one? Mavis said indignantly. Turing never pays the slightest attention to where he’s goi… Connie Willis
“ What's Management up to? I whispered to Bennett.My guess is a new acronym, he whispered. Departmental Unification Management Business. He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. D.U.M.B. Connie Willis
“ The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the… Connie Willis
“ Wrong, and wrong agains,' he said. 'The likeness is already there. The metaphor only sees it. And it is not a mere figure of speech. It is the very essence of our minds as we seek to make sense of our… Connie Willis
“ We live in hope that the good we do here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. We also hope to win the war. We hope that right and goodness will triumph, and that when the war is won, we shall have a b… Connie Willis
“ Then in a conversational tone said, I slapped my Aunt Martha. When my fiancé died. She told me God needed him in heaven, and I hauled off and slapped her, a sixty year old woman....People say unbeliev… Connie Willis
“ Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And… Connie Willis
“ One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be responsive to their patrons. This means having dozens of copies of and Danielle Steele, and a co… Connie Willis
“ Come here, cat. You wouldn’t want to destroy the space-time continuum, would you? Meow. Meow. Connie Willis
“ They make you settle for second best.That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yo… Connie Willis
“ Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer. —ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But Connie Willis
“ That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick. Connie Willis
“ Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If Connie Willis
“ Because around a crisis point, even the tiniest action can assume importance all out of proportion to its size. Consequences multiply and cascade, and anything—a missed telephone call, a match struck… Connie Willis
