“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)
Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Their books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: A Door into Ocean and The Highest Frontier . With John W. Foster and Erik Zinser, they coauthor the textbook, Microbiology: An Evolving Science now in its fifth edition. They explore ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at their blog Ultraphyte. Wikipedia

“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)
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 3, Chapter 4 (p. 134)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, “A Door Into Ocean” - Chapter 4 (p. 71)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
“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)
“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)
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 95)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
““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)
“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)
“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)
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 5, Chapter 8 (p. 247)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
Joan Slonczewski book A Door into Ocean
Part 2, Chapter 7 (p. 95)
A Door into Ocean (1986)
