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“From the ground, we stand;
From our ships, we live;
By the stars, we hope.

—Exodan proverb”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“No one else gets to define who I am. Only me.”
― Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

“Life’s better with a few risks than a lot of regrets,”
― Kate Mascarenhas, The Psychology of Time Travel

“I spend enough time being angry at other people. Why the hell do I have to waste time being angry at my own body?”
― H.E. Edgmon, The Witch King

“One flesh, one end, bitch.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“I’m sorry, but I can’t accept a lesser evil for the sake of it being lesser.”
― Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

“Tresha. It was the thankful, humble, vulnerable feeling that came after someone saw a truth in you, something they had discovered just by watching, something that you did not admit often to yourself.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“All you can do, Rosemary – all any of us can do – is work to be something positive instead. That is a choice that every sapient must make every day of their life. The universe is what we make of it. It’s up to you to decide what part you will play.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Sure, they would have wanted her regardless, but they could have done it quietly. Unexpressed longing was a skill they were good at.”
― Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters

“I’ll never understand how the rest of you expect brand new adults to be able to teach kids how to be people.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“I have never understood potatoes,” Sissix said. “The whole point of a potato is to cover it with salt so you don’t notice how bland it is. Why not just get a salt lick and skip the potato?”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Wake up, Ohan,” he said. Ohan’s eyes snapped open, confused. “Do you know what’s happening aboard this ship right now? Do you care? I know you’re dying and all, but even on your best days, you’ve never been terribly present. Not that I’m one to talk. But on the off-chance that you do care, you should know that the ship’s AI has just crashed. It’s wiped clean. Now, to me—and possibly to you, who knows—this is an inconvenience. To Jenks, this is the worst day of his life. Do you know that he loved the AI? Actually loved, as in, ‘in love.’ Ridiculous, I know. I don’t pretend to understand. Frankly, I find the whole notion absurd. But you know what I realized? It doesn’t matter what I think. Jenks thinks something different, and his pain is very real right now. Me knowing how stupid this whole thing is doesn’t make him hurt any less.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“Because here’s the thing: I was fine on my own, and so are you.”
― Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls

“I'm a connoisseur of the poppy. I know my stuff. This diluted muck barely passes muster.”
― James Lovegrove, Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows

“I could hate you, but it would kill me, and that is not how I am dying for you.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“It's not who I want to be. I want to be soft, and I don't want to take shit from any-one.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“But of course there are no Gods here, good or bad, protective or vicious. There are only brutal people and their brutal toys, preying on those lacking in their own brutality.”
― Zoe Hana Mikuta, Gearbreakers

“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Ead knew the scent of a secret. She wore it like a perfume.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Her adept said: "I'll keep it off you. Nav, show them what the Ninth House does."

Gideon lifted her sword. The construct worked itself free of its last confines of masonry and rotten wood and heaved before them, flexing itself like a butterfly.

"We do bones, motherfucker," she said.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

“She looked back for visual confirmation that she had, indeed, just fucked a guy who wore socks and sandals. In the summer. Pg.29”
― Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming

“By no means. There is great power in stories.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Yes, Dr. Jones, I'd love to meet you in the supply closet, but first I have to administer forty ccs of medical medical to my patients' medical medical or he may go into medical medical, and then we'll really be in trouble.”
― Lauren Graham, Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls

“Sea sisters, Susa had called them once. Two pearls formed in the same oyster.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“The stranger came out of the sea like a water ghost, barefoot and wearing the scars of his journey.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Even a hawk cannot see the back of its own head.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Reading,' Ead said lightly. 'A dangerous pastime.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“Somewhere, at some point in time, some random cis person who's probably dead now decided all trans people were stuck in the wrong body, and that became law. But I'm not a boy trapped in a girl's body. My body is a boy's body because I'm a boy and it's mine. My body isn't wrong. Okay?”
― H.E. Edgmon, The Witch King

“So, I really am pure of heart and dumb of ass, huh?”
― H.E. Edgmon

“You have a talent for luck when swinging a heavy piece of metal at things.”
― F.T. Lukens, So This Is Ever After