The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2)

by Eliot Schrefer

“I assumed that would be the case,” OS says. “But I know you like to be presented with what appear to be options.”

I know that people can have parts of themselves that we don’t have access to, until they choose to reveal them. That doesn’t mean they’re inconsistent or even that they changed. It just means that they’ve decided to let us see inside.”

This world is too heavy not to treat it as lightly as we can.

“I understand your reasoning. It’s just that I hate it. I hate it.”

“I was raised to be alone, to be powerful by being contained. To beat away human needs. I think sometimes that it is too late for me, that I will never relate to anyone else. That is why I retreated here. But there’s another me out there. Another Kodiak. Who will spend his life relying on you.”

as soon as we classify someone, we establish the ways in which they’re separate from us. It’s the most fundamental othering that we do.”