Pat Cadigan Quotes

Maybe it’s better to be half of something wonderful than a whole nothing at all.

The authenticity may have been dubious, but the excitement had been real.

Old responses live long, die hard, and frequently leave a troublesome corpse.

I remembered the sign in front of the cathedral:

If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.

It was a lonely thing. There was no way to be sure if it meant the same thing to both of you. He’d forgotten that part of making love, how you couldn’t assume that intent was as joined as bodies were.

"Truth and information are not the same thing. I promise you that's a fact."
"So you told yourself. But you have to admit that they do coincide often enough to let us all get around in the world safely."

Fusion power we licked; static cling has us on the ropes. It’s a funny world.

It gets tricky here, but it’s always seemed to be that sanity is, or can be, as relative as anything else. Sacrifice an animal to Zeus and predict the future from the formation of its entrails—do that as a general in ancient Greece hoping for victory in a coming battle and you’re prudent. Do it today and you’re a clinical paranoid and a mean one, too. Sanity, like customs and manners, seems to have a strong basis in the accepted standards of a particular time and place.

If you need someone to believe something, make them go for a walk with you. Walking takes up most of the energy they’d use to disbelieve you.

There were those who insisted this had already happened, but they could never come up with any solid examples, only vague stories involving the cousin of a daughter of a friend-of-a-friend who overheard someone on an all-night bus telling someone else about it.

That was the real price, I thought. Once you had power, you ended up having to depend on it. Eventually, like anything else, it owned you.
Eventually? No, from the beginning; we just don’t bother admitting it at first.

"Is that the way you feel about it?" I asked.
"I'm a lawyer. I deal with the law as it is, not how I feel about it."

Nothing stays the same, Gina, nothing works forever. If I don’t like it, that’s too bad. If you don’t like it, that’s still too bad.

Help him by helping him resist your help.