“ You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. Kathryn Davis
“ Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin brothers who found themselves adrift so many years ago… Kathryn Davis
“ Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too. Kathryn Davis
“ Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that’s what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through – that’s why they love it when we bow our heads. It doesn’t have anything… Kathryn Davis
“ According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot and this child was going to change everything. Of course it was way too soon – both sides were totally… Kathryn Davis
“ In my lap I had my dear little pug, the smell of whose ears will always be sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Araby and the scent of heliotrope combined. Kathryn Davis
“ The irony was not lost on any of us that despite the theme there was a robot on the throne. Kathryn Davis
“ Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana. Kathryn Davis
“ A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh. Kathryn Davis
“ ...the beginning and the end of time. These are the same thing, as everybody knows who came into this universe via a wormhole. Kathryn Davis
“ If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living? Kathryn Davis
“ There was a worm addicted to grape leaves, she continued, and suddenly it woke up. Call it a miracle, whatever, something woke it up and it wasn’t a worm anymore. It was the whole vineyard, and the or… Kathryn Davis
“ The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back. Kathryn Davis
“ Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty. Kathryn Davis
