Sister Mine
Nalo Hopkinson
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
“You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.”
“Suck all the juice this life will give!”
“Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.”
“I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.”
“I sometimes wish I could fine people every time they use black street slang to prove how hip they are.” “Yeah, I know what you mean.” “Just charge them a residual. White people, Chinese people; even those boho Obamanegroes with their braided hemp necklaces, you understand me? … Except for dirt-poor white people surviving the life in some hood somewhere. And those Filipino prisoners you see on YouTube dancing to Michael Jackson songs. I figure those guys have earned the right to drop the occasional ‘homie’ now and then …”
“Why? Because I played god with you? Baby girl, that’s what I do. And not lightly, either.” He thought about that for a second. “Well, yes, sometimes lightly. You know what they say about all work and no play.”
“When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.”
“She calls herself Fleet ‘cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?” “British Colombia?” He looked sad. “No, Before Crack.”
“In the back of my mind’s eye, everything had a fuzzy green haze on it, like a brand-new tennis ball. The world was getting its Shine on.”
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