Chivi Leija

“It is strange to hear your mother talk about being human because, honestly, it's too easy to forget.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other and go on.
It was a good decision, and Jane was proud of it. The trouble was, she couldn't carry it out. Those few seconds in which parts of her mind came to a halt were not trivial in their effect on her. There was trauma, loss, change; she was not now the same being that she had been before. parts of her had died. Parts of her had become confused, out of order...
She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead