Astrid Terese

“I sometimes think the fundamental disconnect with civilians is that they think a war is an event, something neatly bounded on either end by dates. What anyone who’s lived through one can tell you is that it’s actually a place. You’re there and then you leave, but places don’t stop existing just because you aren’t looking at them.”
― T. Kingfisher, What Feasts at Night

“My brain said. Just walk away. [...] But even as my brain was saying that, my body was turning back, becaus like puppies we are enculturated to turn when our name is called.”
― John Scalzi, The Kaiju Preservation Society

“If the world was populated soley by persons who loved and desired each other symmetrically, it might be happier, but not so interesting.”
― Neal Stephenson, The Confusion

“Demi-monde- which is French for “half-world” and an old euphemism, according to Miss Redmayne who teaches humanities, for any sexually active woman who failed to conform to the strict patriarchal gender norms that permeated French society in the dark days before Tinder.”
― Aaronovitch, Ben