Quotes from Ann Aguirre

Sometimes when you meet someone, there's a click. I don't believe in love at first sight but I believe in that click. Recognition.

I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight.

Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don't matter as much as personal choice.

Love sounded terrible if it made you so weak, you couldn't survive with out it.

I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.

I've tried to be inclusive in my '2B' series. Over the course of three books, I wrote African-American characters, a paraplegic character, gay and lesbian characters, a bisexual, Jewish heroine, a multiracial hero, Korean and Chinese-American characters, and a multiracial supporting character.

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

Just . . . love me, and let tomorrow look after itself.

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

We're bound by chains of love, but they don't weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.

I'd never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

Love can make us do dreadful things.

But the world moves on, even when you don't want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

People stay together and stay true only as long as they both want to. And all the promises in the world don't change the length of time. Nothing comes with a guarantee.

I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.

If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

He went in, lean and deadly, and ended the creature with a lightning-fast spike of his blade. It shrieked, likely altering the rest. The death call carried like a mournful song.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

With my partner beside me, I fear nothing, not even death.