Wolfgarr

“The girl caught the eye of the Damsels, a non-combat clan that specialized in monetizing their members’ looks.”
― Dan Sugralinov, The Destroying Plague

“When she was a teenager, the 1980s had felt far away, a lifetime ago, but now, when she was so many more decades ahead, 1996 still felt recent. The first twenty years of her life had gone by in slow motion--the endless summers, the space from birthday to birthday almost immeasurable--but the second twenty years had gone by in a flash. Days could still be slow, of course, but weeks and months and sometimes even years zipped along, like a rope slipping through your hands.”
― Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

“when people deny each other their freedoms no matter how noble their intentions, tyranny and brutality are the inevitable result no matter how enlightened the slavers think they are. The tyranny necessary to enforce such a society traps everyone in it. It falls because it turns on itself. If people are lucky it falls because people who see themselves as free cannot be ruled for long. But one way or another it will fall.”
― Aaron Jay, Beginner's Luck

“Consider yourselves warned, motherfuckers.”
― Kirsten Miller, The Change