Miranda > Miranda's Quotes

“The math would be true, and that’s all she’s ever asked from the world.”
― Seanan McGuire, Middlegame

“It is not true that the dead cannot be folded. Square becomes kite becomes swan; history becomes rumor becomes song. Even the act of remembrance creases the truth. What the paper-folding diagrams fail to mention is that each fold enacts itself upon the secret marrow of your ethics, the axioms of your thoughts. Whether this is the most important thing the diagrams fail to mention is a matter of opinion.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“I have loved you in your own language, Kaela thought as she picked up her blades, so softly that we never knew it. Let your language be mine; let me cast my own shadows.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“There are too many shapes of love to be counted. One of them is forgiveness.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“I don’t know how to live.” “But you do,” she said. “It’s all about the distinguishing moments. It’s about going from one to the next, no matter how small the interval of time, or how long.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Conservation of Shadows

“There is a lot about what is going on here that I don’t understand. But I am participating anyway.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“So much of who we are is what we remember and retell,”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead