Quotes by Brian Hodge

Let me see what I can come up with, she said, and seemed to take a new satisfaction in it now. Something wrong to do, a law to break, and if she was lucky she might even get to steal, and it must have been then that everything changed between us and each of us didnt just have a neighbor to pass the time with but the closest thing either of us could find to a friend. (Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls)

For the first time she realized shed spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that shed never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods?

Without wonder, theres no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you dont exercise your capacity for wonder... well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization thats starting to atrophy and die.