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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

— Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (Page 82 - 83)

Every fictional narrative produces physical/material effects and affects, but, for us, speculative science fictions that address the unknown and form a resistance to explaining it all away remain the most vital (and hopeful) of all the hyperstitional cultural viruses at work in the hyperreal.

— Fiction as Method by Theo Reeves-Evison (Page 223)

"When the moon climbs over the misty hill, When the steed is unyoked and the hamlet still; When the flowers are sleeping, and dripping gems Hang like pearls on their emerald stems; When the cawing rook has gone to rest, And the lark is hid in his lowly nest. Spirit of Song, this, this is the time When wisp-lights dance on the moor and fen; When the watch-dog bays to the curfew chime-- Spirit of Song, I'll woo thee then!"

• To the Spirit of Song

— Poems by Eliza Cook (Page 179)

Non-LGBT asexual people aren't saying they have an identical or worse experience when compared to LGBTQ people. They are saying they often feel omitted, erased, and excluded and that they move through life facing consistent challenges to their sexual orientation.

— The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra Decker (Page 49)

for most asexual folks it's not an experience of outward oppression so much as it's an experience of omission-of being left out and unable to participate in something that's supposedly central to life.

— The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra Decker (Page 48)

"Believing the love isn't fully there unless sex is desired too is like believing a tailless dog is never happy based on the notion that all dogs wag their tails if they're happy. For asexual people, sexual attraction is just not in the equation; like the tailless dog, it's just not there to wag."

— The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra Decker (Page 19)

They are called “labour-saving” machines—a commonly used phrase which implies what we expect of them; but we do not get what we expect. What they really do is to reduce the skilled labourer to the rank of the unskilled, to increase the number of the “reserve army of labour”—that is, to increase the precariousness of life among the workers and to intensify the labour of those who serve the machines (as slaves their masters).

— Breaking Things at Work by Gavin Mueller (Page 64)

Henceforth, he passed his days stretched at full length upon the floor.

— Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Maurice Leblanc (Penguin classics) (69%)