No one has walked on the moon in my lifetime,” I told them. “Yet you try to tell me that it’s my generation who has lost their wonder? That it’s the young people of today who have let everything slip and fall into ruin? You don’t understand. You had the dream and the potential and the opportunities, and you messed it all up. You got hope and moon landings and that bright, glorious future. I got only the disasters.
― From “What Happened to Hope and Wonder in Science Fiction” by Karina Sumner-Smith, a guest post on Fantasy Cafe for Sci-Fi November (via fantasiawandering)
(Source: ksumnersmith)
Like any other man
I was born with a knife
in one hand
and a wound in the other.
― Gregory Orr, "Like Any Other Man” (via wondersomewords)
(Source: wondersomewords-blog)
