Nisi Shawl > Quotes

“I've found something out about myself. I can't bow to another man.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“The steampunk genre often works as a form of alternate history, showing us how small changes to what actually happened might have resulted in momentous differences: clockwork Victorian-era computers, commercial transcontinental dirigible lines, and a host of other wonders. This is that kind of book.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“They were losing. No. They had lost.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“She had learned from experience that scared men were dangerous”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“There’s always a war, somewhere,” said Albert, the first to recover. “The masters take care that’ll be the case.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“we continually create the world we occupy”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“How authentically human. How dangerous.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“Practical dreamers,” he said. “That’s what we are. Dreamers, but realistic about it. Heads in the clouds, but our feet on the ground.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“You funny thing! So selfish, so practical. Never mind. I will not ask you to kill me, for you would surely find it an annoying task.”
― Nisi Shawl, Filter House

“And you may find it necessary, sometimes, to be less than you are capable of being. I know—” His last words are lost as she is born.”
― Nisi Shawl, Filter House

“There was a quality to being alone in the woods that felt safe and dangerous at the same time.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“That was why there was no more beauty in the world anymore. War had killed it.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“Everything boiled down to alcohol and guns.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“examine who we are as sentient beings, and science fiction as a tool for social change makes for a most welcome companion on our journey.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“The stories contained within will delight your sensibilities, inspire your wonderings, and connect you to your humanity, which is the point of good storytelling”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“For too long, the voices and visions for our future have been provided, for the most part, by and from a culturally European (if not Eurocentric) perspective. However, there is change afoot.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“Her darling. Perhaps Rima was right, and Lisette should abandon Daisy and, with her, Everfair. Beliefs like the ones that had had hurt Lisette must be unpicked with utmost care from the weave of Daisy’s mind to keep them from causing more harm. She didn’t want to undertake such an onerous task of finding and pulling out the myriad noxious threads of assumed superiority that twisted through her love’s disdain of the mixing of races. But who else could? Who else had a good grasp of the problem? And if no one took it on? Who else besides Daisy would want her, by now an old woman of forty-five?”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“Just because they’re our enemies doesn’t mean we don’t want some of the same things.”
― Nisi Shawl, 2043... a Merman I Should Turn to Be

“And the men and women, my mortals. I will take very tender care of my little mortals. And they will bless the land in my name.”
― Nisi Shawl, Filter House

“I mean, he’s not wrong, but he’s not right either.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“a country that has reached the age of wisdom would stop building monuments to the warmongers of its history, but rather erect them for its peacemakers, those who saved lives by preventing the course of events from descending into a time of sword and fire.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“I don’t really handle the paperwork anymore.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“Silver Mirror opined that a country that has reached the age of wisdom would stop building monuments to the warmongers of its history, but rather erect them for its peacemakers, those who saved lives by preventing the course of events from descending into a time of sword and fire.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“these stories are delivered by vibrant, authentic voices bursting to weigh in on the human condition and our journey of human evolution.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“He was stronger than Lily, but only physically.”
― Nisi Shawl

“We be free.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“This was why there was no more beauty in the world anymore. War had killed it.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“Lost: Two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.”
― Nisi Shawl, Everfair

“didn’t solve my problem, but I put her suggestion in my back pocket, you know? Like it made me feel better that there was a thing I hadn’t done yet that I could do.”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

“Lesley Nneka Arimah”
― Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color