Eeva

“When William noticed a small blue hole in Joan’s head, he screamed, “No!” He jumped into her lap and chanted, “Joan! Joan! Joan!” Maybe he wanted to be consoled by her. The living expect a lot from dead women.”
― Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

“I think what we fear most about finding a mind equal to our own, but of another species, is that they will truly see us—and find us lacking, and turn away from us in disgust. That contact with another mind will puncture our species’ self-satisfied feeling of worth. We will have to confront, finally, what we truly are, and the damage we have done to our home. But that confrontation, perhaps, is the only thing that will save us. The only thing that will allow us to look our short-sightedness, our brutality, and our stupidity in the face, and change.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

“The earth itself will remember us, Yarrow wanted to say. We've written our story on it with walls and towers.”
― Jared Pechaček, The West Passage

“The stories are everywhere, you cannot avoid them. Every day you tell a story to yourself; the details of your day become a part of your myth. It is reordered. It is made sense of.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water