Pat Cadigan quotes

Pat Cadigan is an American-born science fiction author, celebrated for her work in the cyberpunk and speculative fiction genres. Often called the “Queen of Cyberpunk,” her innovative stories explore the intersection of technology, human consciousness, and society. She is recognized for her influential novels such as "Synners" and "Mindplayers". Here are 19 of her quotes:

The only place to go now is into the context. If you can find it. Between the context and the content, between the mainline and the hardline, falls the shadow.

Pat Cadigan

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.

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That was it, then, civilization was officially collapsed if the cops had stopped ticketing abandoned cars and roosted on them instead.

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Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.

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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.

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

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The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don't slow down, we're gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn't happened that way. So they'd all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old-hell, not even growing up.

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He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.

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Ninety percent of life was being there, and the rest was being there on time.

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

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If you can't fuck it, and it doesn't dance, eat it or throw it away.

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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.

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‘Truth is cheap, but information costs.' I can't remember who said that.” "Vince What's-His-Name,” said Sam. "Died in a terrorist raid or something. I thought you said all information should be free.” "It should. It isn't. Knowledge is power. But power corrupts. Which means the Age of Fast Information is an extremely corrupt age in which to live.

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Fez gave her a squeeze. "You're a genius, Sam-I-Am.” She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. "It just makes sense, is all.”.

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You don't belong with them; you're not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you're like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it! It's hell being ordinary, but that's the human condition.

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I pushed her back hard. "You don't belong with them; you're not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you're like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!” She looked at me like I'd slapped her. "Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. "It's hell being ordinary, but that's the human condition.”.

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Fez gave her a squeeze. "You're a genius, Sam-I-Am.” She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. "It just makes sense, is all.” "Sometimes that's all it takes to be a genius.”.

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