All the Birds in the Sky

by Charlie Jane Anders

When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn’t do what he liked.

(Theodolphus made a mental note to hunt down Lars Saarinian, the psychologist who had studied the slaughterhouse behavior of pigs and come up with an educational regimen for human children, when he finally got out of here.)

Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.

all the surviving animals had poured their life essence into one massive creature, which swelled with the lost potential of future generations.