Gena Showalter Quotes

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers.

The effects that interest me are not the guy flying through the sky, but creating reality - reality that you otherwise can't go and shoot.

If you could access 90 percent of your brain, you'd be Charles Xavier.

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.

During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

I believe people can move things with their minds.

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

If I could have one superpower, I'd want to have the power of mind over matter. I'd want to be able to move things and people with my mind.

I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?

The power of the mind. Basically, being able to control anyone's mind. That would be a very good power.

I was the kid who was sat in his room, trying to move objects across the room with my eyes or my mind.

If I had a super power, I'd want to be able to fly just so I could float around my apartment. Or I'd really like telekinesis because then you'd be able to slam the door on somebody.

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself.

I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.

When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my budgie;" when Anathema said it, it sounded as though she was admitting to a hereditary disease which she'd much prefer not to have.

What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.

...and Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

I feel like Alice Cullen probably could do it in her sleep, because she was always surrounded by a vampire.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.