"It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage."
— China Miéville (The Scar)

"And there it was again. Another religion turned against itself. Another edifice constructed by the human mind, decimated by human nature."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do."
— Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)

"...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?"
— Catherynne M. Valente (In the Cities of Coin and Spice)

""'I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.'""
— Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)