Trish

“Who cares what word you use? Some aunts are completely irrelevant, and some aunts have been there since the day their niece was born. I had one grandmother I never saw and one who, when she died, I cried for three days. The word isn’t what matters. It’s the specific relationship.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“Change is a bastard, as any disnosaur will tell you.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker

“I hate things that try to take away who you are. [...] When you take away memories, you take away the person. Everything they are.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

“But, at the end of all of that, we'd have had the problem that any actual alien invasion would face, and that the genre novels and entertainments so seldom really consider. Which is what the hell use is an Earth once you have it? If you have the universe, why go to the trouble? An Earth, populated or depopulated, what would one do with it, exactly? Too big a trophy to go on the mantelpiece, and not exactly full of rare resources to us, who can go anywhere. Earth people are very big on their own significance. One longs for those narratives to have the Arcturian Battle Fleet just glide on by, embarrassedly signalling, Sorry humankind, we're going somewhere actually interesting, can't stop!”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bee Speaker