
The City in the Middle of the Night

they love structure in anything, except for their actual lives.
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
In a city, you could only walk in circles. Trouble knew where to find you. People lived with more things than they could carry, and they pretended that built structures were geographical features.
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
Nothing will change, unless more humans learn to be like me. I remember the climate projections, and the rising trend line. We can’t fix this problem in my lifetime, or even several lifetimes, but we need to start now.
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
People chant slogans, but I only hear vowels.
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
to join with others to shape a future is the holiest act. This is hard work, and it never stops being hard, but this collective dreaming/designing is the only way we get to keep surviving, and this practice defines us as a community.
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
Some jobs are almost twice as hard as others, and maybe those shifts need to be shorter. Some people have a higher capacity than others. Work is more complicated than people realize.”
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
Sometimes one of the girls who seems about my age looks at me and smiles. Sometimes I even smile back, and feel a different shyness from my normal kind.
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
Parties are only fun if they’re unreasonable.
Charlie Jane Anders • The City in the Middle of the Night
“You keep bragging about how you walked through the jaws of death so many times you became their personal dentists.