Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.

- Kij Johnson

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone…

- Kij Johnson

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,…

- Kij Johnson

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago…

- Kij Johnson

Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining every…

- Kij Johnson

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe wi…

- Kij Johnson

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

- Kij Johnson