Zitate von 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, Bellwether

Quelle: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 3 (p. 119)

„Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog

„The reason Victorian society was so restricted and repressed was that it was impossible to move without knocking something over.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog

„One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog

„When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.“

—  Connie Willis

„People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog

„And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog

„No," I said finally.
"Slowness in Answering," she said into the handheld. "When's the last time you slept?"
"1940" I said promptly, which is the problem with Quickness in Answering.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog

„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 in on time.“

—  Connie Willis, Bellwether

Quelle: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 4 “Rapids”, Section 1 (p. 140)

„I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were.“

—  Connie Willis, buch Doomsday Book

Quelle: Doomsday Book

„One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.“

—  Connie Willis

„There are some things worth giving up anything for, even your freedom, and getting rid of your period is definitely one of them.“

—  Connie Willis

Quelle: Even the Queen: & Other Short Stories

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

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog

„If they were part of the self-correction (i. e., of the space-time continuum) what did that do to the notion of free will? Or was free will part of the plan as well?“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 28 (p. 479)

„My physics teacher used to say Diogenes shouldn’t have wasted his time looking for an honest man,” Shirl said, “he should have been looking for somebody who thought for himself.“

—  Connie Willis, Bellwether

Quelle: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 3 “Tributaries”, Section 4 (p. 127)

„The continuum had somehow managed to correct the incongruity, pairing off lovers like the last act of a Shakespearean comedy, though just how it had managed it wasn’t clear. What was clear was that it had wanted us out of the way while it was doing whatever it was doing. So it had done the time-travel equivalent of locking us in our rooms.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 26 (p. 436)

„It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick’s Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.“

—  Connie Willis, buch To Say Nothing of the Dog

Quelle: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998), Chapter 18 (p. 318)

„“What’s going on?” I whispered to Gina.
“Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don’t have enough to do,” she murmured back. “So they’ve invented a new acronym.”“

—  Connie Willis, Bellwether

Quelle: Bellwether (1996), Chapter 1 “Beginning”, Section 4 (p. 33)

„“The clerk is dying, Rosemund is dying, you’ve all been exposed. Why shouldn’t I give up hope?”
“God has not abandoned us utterly,” he said. “Agnes is safe in his arms.”
Safe, she thought bitterly. In the ground. In the cold. In the dark.“

—  Connie Willis, buch Doomsday Book

Quelle: Doomsday Book (1992), Chapter 31 (p. 496)