A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

by Arkady Martine

A MIND is a sort of star-chart in reverse: an assembly of memory, conditioned response, and past action held together in a network of electricity and endocrine signaling, rendered down to a single moving point of consciousness.

Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun.

“No one is dead,” Mahit said carefully, “who is remembered.”