Jim

“She could taste a nuanced ethical understanding of the patent system all over his body.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“The lines of her tears sparkled on her cheeks. "I am a prisoner here," she said. I took the chair across from her and watched her cry. I sat upright, one hand on the table's surface and the other around my drink. I felt the ecstasy of a dancer, but I kept still.”
― Denis Johnson, The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

“People assigned genders based on behaviors and work roles, often ignoring anatomy. Gender was a form of social recognition.”
― Annalee Newitz, Autonomous

“If we believe that love is weakness? And people resent it, because they think it’s an admission of weakness, they draw away from it… and that’s why you kill the thing you love, because it’s your weakness personified. If you kill it, you will kill your weakness before it kills you.”
― William Gaddis, The Recognitions