Jo > Jo's Quotes

“For the greatest crime of the poor in the eyes of the weathly has always been to strike back. To fail to suffer in silence and instead disrupt their lives and their fantasies of a compassionate society that coincidentally set them on top. To say "no".”
― Shannon Chakraborty, The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“....We're machines, and machines are objects. Objects are its."

"I'd say you're more than just an object," Dex said.

The robot looked a touch offended. "I would never call you just an animal, Sibling Dex." It turned its gaze to the road, head held high. "We don't have to fall into the same category to be of equal value.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“We were idiots, the pair of us. Long defended against obsolete enemies - the parents whose roofs we no longer lived under, the teenage peers for whom we had exhausted ourselves pantomiming heterosexuality. We had gotten into the habit of mystery, and now we didn't know how to drop it. We played a hand of easily guessed cards very close to our vests.”
― Rosalie Knecht, Lost and Found

“I wish you luck, Detective. The hardest job on this earth is protecting the innocent.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Pledge

“A double rainbow had changed the course of my relationship with the fox. I had been jogging when I realised that he would live only a few years in this harsh country. At the time I believed that making an emotional investment in a short-lived creature was a fool's game. Before the jog ended, a rainbow appeared in front of me. One end of the rainbow slipped through an island of tall dead poplars drowning in gray sky, their crowns splitting and spraying into each other. I stopped. A second rainbow arched over the poplars. How many rainbows had I seen in this one valley? A hundred easy, and I always paused to watch. I realised that a fox, like a rainbow and every other gift from Nature, had an intrinsic value that was quite independent of its longevity. After that, whenever I questioned devoting so much time to an animal whose lifespan barely exceeded the blink of an eye, I remembered rainbows.”
― Catherine Raven, Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship

“Seems like someone should have thought of a rule that goes Do not Fuck Your Only Planet to Death Under Any Circumstances. Seems like that should have been Rule Number One.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red