Michelle

“Life is terrifying. None of us have a rule book. None of us know what we’re doing here. So, the easiest way to stare reality in the face and not utterly lose your shit is to believe that you have control over it. If you believe you have control, then you believe that you’re at the top. And if you’re at the top, then people who aren’t like you . . . well, they’ve got to be somewhere lower, right?”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“The people we remember are the ones who decided how our maps should be drawn. Nobody remembers who built the roads.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“They had only done to us what we had planned to do to them. That was the moment in which I no longer knew who the animals were.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“They say God is good all the time. Seem he also likes irony.”
― P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout