Teresa Nielsen Haydense Quotes

“You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper”

“I've covered a lot of ground geographically and emotionally and for years I lost my connection with my family. But the best comfort you can have, whether you are on the phone or sitting there in the living room with them, is with your parents, and to me family has always meant protection. When you smile you get a smile back, unconditionally.”

“All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.”

“Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.”

“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.”

“A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.”

“Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.”

“There are two things you should never do alone: one is get divorced, the other is drink.”

“When you're corked...you're corked!”

“Courage is fueled by the motivation to take the first step into the unknown.”