Sarah Monette Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Sarah Monette:

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn’t matter.
~Sarah Monette


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I have mild albinism, which means I am very sensitive to light, so the animal representation of my spirit would have to be a mole. I am particularly fond of that most Lovecraftian of mammals, the star-nosed mole, and tend to choose it for online icons and avatars.
~Sarah Monette


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I am a huge fan of world-building. I love doing it in my own books, and I love reading it done well.
~Sarah Monette


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The fountain of youth is like the monkey’s paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
~Sarah Monette


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I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it’s all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway.
~Sarah Monette


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Life on Mars would be awesome! Even single-celled life, although I admit that in my heart of hearts, I want it to be the barge-people of the canals.
~Sarah Monette


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