Mia

“Like your victory, love spreads back through time. It claims our earliest association, our battles and losses. Assassinations become assignations.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Each of us plunges through our own existence, punching me-shaped holes through days, through weeks, through conversations. We're none of us one thing or the other; we're legion. There's a different Yaz inside your skull for everyday of your life. We deceive others. We deceive ourselves. We keep secrets that even we don't know and hold beliefs we don't understand. And in that state of profound, fundamental, primal ignorance, we still think we can sculpt the clay of our own selves. We think we know what to cut away, that we understand the consequences of excising greed.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars

“We are nothing if not thorough in our deception of others.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“xxx all souls are equal in heaven.

Only in heaven, I thought. And this is not heaven. This is a place for snakes and ladders, and though I was once high up on a ladder propped up against the Tree of Life, now I've slid down a snake. How gratifying for the others to witness my fall!”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments