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Top 20 Kij Johnson Quotes (2024 Update)

Kij Johnson Quote: “Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that’s you.”

1. “Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that’s you.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Because if something does go wrong, you’ll need what you’re feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.”

2. “Because if something does go wrong, you’ll need what you’re feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Reon Atescre of Sona Nyl had been slim and laughing-eyed, a lighthearted, fearless man who was not attracted to women, seeing her for what she was and not what he wanted her to be, and therefore an easy companion to her.”

3. “Reon Atescre of Sona Nyl had been slim and laughing-eyed, a lighthearted, fearless man who was not attracted to women, seeing her for what she was and not what he wanted her to be, and therefore an easy companion to her.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Sam has rolled to his side, waiting patiently for Linna to remember to scratch him. Live forever, she thinks, and wills his twisted spine and legs straight and well.”

4. “Sam has rolled to his side, waiting patiently for Linna to remember to scratch him. Live forever, she thinks, and wills his twisted spine and legs straight and well.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “She hadn’t loved Randolph Carter. He had been a man like many, so wrapped and rapt in his own story that there was no room for the world around him except as it served his own tale: the black men of Parg and Kled and Sona Nyl, the gold men of Thorabon and Ophir and Rinar; and all the women invisible everywhere, except when they brought him drinks or sold him food – all walk-on parts in the play that was Randolph Carter, or even wallpaper.”

5. “She hadn’t loved Randolph Carter. He had been a man like many, so wrapped and rapt in his own story that there was no room for the world around him except as it served his own tale: the black men of Parg and Kled and Sona Nyl, the gold men of Thorabon and Ophir and Rinar; and all the women invisible everywhere, except when they brought him drinks or sold him food – all walk-on parts in the play that was Randolph Carter, or even wallpaper.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The dreamer’s sheen and the power of his passion had for a time attracted her, but in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story.”

6. “But he had loved her, or thought he did, and that had brought her, sputtering and gasping, above the surface of his self-regard. The dreamer’s sheen and the power of his passion had for a time attracted her, but in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “These cables will fail eventually, these stones will fall – but not the dream of crossing the mist, the dream of connection. Now that we know it can happen, it will always be here.”

7. “These cables will fail eventually, these stones will fall – but not the dream of crossing the mist, the dream of connection. Now that we know it can happen, it will always be here.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid. He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak. Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky, but this is mixed with something else, a hunger that worms through her bones and leaves them hollow, to be filled with fire.”

8. “Aeneas comes to her court a suppliant, impoverished and momentarily timid. He is a good-looking man. If anything, his scars emphasize that. The aura of his divine failure wraps around him like a cloak. Dido feels the tender contempt of the strong for the unlucky, but this is mixed with something else, a hunger that worms through her bones and leaves them hollow, to be filled with fire.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.”

9. “Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “That night and for years afterward, she had envisioned another dream land, built from the imaginings of powerful women dreamers. Perhaps it would have fewer gods, she thought as she watched the moon vanish over the horizon, leaving her in the darkness of the ninety-seven stars.”

10. “That night and for years afterward, she had envisioned another dream land, built from the imaginings of powerful women dreamers. Perhaps it would have fewer gods, she thought as she watched the moon vanish over the horizon, leaving her in the darkness of the ninety-seven stars.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.”

11. “Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “I say this and it is short and sharp, without elegance, like a bark; but I have no idea how else to start. I am only a fox: I have no elegances of language.”

12. “I say this and it is short and sharp, without elegance, like a bark; but I have no idea how else to start. I am only a fox: I have no elegances of language.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.”

13. “Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Everyone wanted to tell their stories and to know where they fit in their own fudoki. She was not that different.”

14. “Everyone wanted to tell their stories and to know where they fit in their own fudoki. She was not that different.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “The constant talking didn’t bother her, for cats use their voices to say ‘here I am, where are you?’ and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.”

15. “The constant talking didn’t bother her, for cats use their voices to say ‘here I am, where are you?’ and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”

16. “Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Does Carthage even have forests? Did Virgil know for sure or was it just convenient for his story? Virgil was a professional liar. This would not be the only place where he pruned the truth until it was as artificial as an espaliered pear tree against a wall, forced into an expedient shape and bearing the demanded fruit.”

17. “Does Carthage even have forests? Did Virgil know for sure or was it just convenient for his story? Virgil was a professional liar. This would not be the only place where he pruned the truth until it was as artificial as an espaliered pear tree against a wall, forced into an expedient shape and bearing the demanded fruit.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.”

18. “I can write about it if I am careful, if I keep it far enough away.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “He’s not from Ulthar. I thought I said: he was special. He’s from the waking world. That’s where he’s taking her.”

19. “He’s not from Ulthar. I thought I said: he was special. He’s from the waking world. That’s where he’s taking her.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “He loved who he was: Randolph Carter, master dreamer, adventurer. To him, she had been landscape, an articulate crag he could ascend, a face to put to his place. When were women ever anything but footnotes to men’s tales?”

20. “He loved who he was: Randolph Carter, master dreamer, adventurer. To him, she had been landscape, an articulate crag he could ascend, a face to put to his place. When were women ever anything but footnotes to men’s tales?”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “A fish is not seduced by bait. When it grows hungry, it eats whichever mosquito or dragonfly happens to be closest. If one is fortunate or destined, it is one’s bait that is closest at that moment. But it is chance that fish and bait are in the right places at the right time.”

21. “A fish is not seduced by bait. When it grows hungry, it eats whichever mosquito or dragonfly happens to be closest. If one is fortunate or destined, it is one’s bait that is closest at that moment. But it is chance that fish and bait are in the right places at the right time.”

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Kij Johnson Quote: “Everyone had a fudoki, Small Cat knew now. Everyone had their own stories, and the stories of their families and ancestors. There were adventures and love stories, or tricks and jokes and funny things that had happened or disasters. Everyone wanted to tell the stories, and to know where they fit in their own fudokis. She was not that different.”

22. “Everyone had a fudoki, Small Cat knew now. Everyone had their own stories, and the stories of their families and ancestors. There were adventures and love stories, or tricks and jokes and funny things that had happened or disasters. Everyone wanted to tell the stories, and to know where they fit in their own fudokis. She was not that different.”

— Kij Johnson

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