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“Death can be hastened but never shared.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 4, “Star of Stone” - Chapter 1 (p. 165)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

“A thousand fools believe a lie, and it’s good as truth.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 1, “Ashore” - Chapter 5 (p. 28)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

““Magic is nonsense.”
“Magic is anything you don’t understand.””

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 3, Chapter 3 (p. 128)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

“You are as responsible for what you let happen as for the actions you share.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 5, Chapter 6 (p. 239)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

“Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 3, Chapter 4 (p. 134)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

“She tended to keep her eyes half closed, as if full sight of the world’s absurdity might be too much to bear.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 2, “A Door Into Ocean” - Chapter 4 (p. 71)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Joan Slonczewski Quotes

“Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 3, “When the Sea Swallows” - Chapter 3 (p. 128)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

“A life postponed too long might never be lived.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 2, Chapter 9 (p. 111)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Life

“There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 4, Chapter 11 (p. 204)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Time

““People fear stone,” Usha said, “because it contains never-life.”
“Non-life? You mean, death?”
“Nonsense,” she repeated vehemently. “What’s to fear about death? Death is natural. Stone is never-life.”
Spinel took another tack. “If they fear it, then how come enough Sharers want it so the traders stock shelves full?”
“How should I know? Why do Valans drink the toxic waste product of sugar-eating yeast?””

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 95)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Life , Death , People , Fear

““I can’t change what I am ovenight.”
“Nor can I. And yet, one can’t stop changing, either.””

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 6, Chapter 16 (p. 368)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Change

“Death hastens those who hasten death.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 5, “Night of Cinnabar” - Chapter 1 (p. 217)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Death

“If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 6, “The Last Door” - Chapter 15 (p. 363)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

“She watched the indigo sky, and the stars coming out tranquil as ever, as if this were any ordinary evening. Only humans knew what an evil time this was.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 5, Chapter 8 (p. 247)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Star , Evil , Time

“Few fears are rational.”

Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean

Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 95)
A Door into Ocean (1986)

Fear

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