A Song for a New Day Quotes

“It’s okay to be afraid, but we don’t have to let it rule us. We’re all afraid; it’s what we do when we’re afraid that matters.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“Fear is a virus. Music is a virus and a vaccine and a cure.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“Places would open again soon, I was sure, when people stopped accepting the government-fueled paranoia as normal.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“Everybody is afraid; it’s what you do when you’re afraid that counts. The world isn’t over yet.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“They’ve grounded all planes. Schools are canceled tomorrow.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“politicians who wielded restriction in the name of freedom and safety, or the ones who didn’t stop them, or the ones who were sure it would only be temporary”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“A river says move on, move on, move on. Flood your banks, alter your borders.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“Hate was reserved for front-page villains. Abstractions: the pox, the bombers, the bombs, the gunmen, the guns, the chaos they sowed, the politicians who wielded restriction in the name of freedom and safety, or the ones who didn’t stop them, or the ones who were sure it would only be temporary.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“We all felt our world slipping away, in cascades and cataracts, the promises of temporary change becoming less and less temporary. Didn’t we feel so much safer? Weren’t safe and healthy worth more to us than large weddings and overcrowded schools? Hadn’t the pox been spread by people working and attending school when they should have stayed home? Never mind that they didn’t stay home because they couldn’t afford to. The talking heads were in agreement that necessity would fuel innovation. Good things were coming fast, they promised; I stopped watching the news.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“Preservation is an action, not a state.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“I’m usually anxious before a show, but my butterflies are wearing butterfly hats.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“airplane hangar? A server center? No: Superwally distribution. As I got closer, I saw that what I’d assumed were starlings or sparrows were in fact drones, rising in a stream, a flock, a cloud, to head to points unknown. Self-driving trucks, drone delivery. No jobs for the humans, other than consumption, which was itself a full-time occupation. What a weird world we’d created. As I drove through Frederick’s empty downtown to pick up my next small road, I was struck by the reasonableness of it all. The transaction we’d made. Of course it made sense to trade company for safety. To trade jobs as makers for jobs as consumers, consuming from the comfort of our homes. We’d set ourselves up.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“The real-time monitors stayed on the performers. The holo took a stomach-churning leap to match up, then they were restored to three-dimensionality. It was a strange relief, an escape from an uncanny valley.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“The spatter on the carpet suggested somebody had knifed a Muppet and let it crawl away to die.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“It's hard to hold a grudge standing beside a river. A river says move on, move on, move on. Flood your banks, alter your borders.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“She understood: sometimes the performance was the music, and vice versa, and the two couldn't be separated.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“She blew her next moment of cool by pushing on a pull door.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“The rents went back to manageable when all the rich people left.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“shopping centers turned detention centers turned Superwally distribution centers;”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“What’s Stage Hollow?” “It’s a new company. I’ve got a friend who works there. It’s going to take off huge any day now.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“She appreciated the concern. It embroidered her own terror nicely.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“a conspiracy against despair.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day

“Rosemary had been to a wave pool once when she was five, at a run-down amusement park, in the Before.”
― Sarah Pinsker, A Song for a New Day