Mary

“Honour can be lost a dozen times, and regained. Life can only be lost once, and never regained.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Never Die

“But I do know books—and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually. That was a magic in and of itself.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“nearly four thousand U.S. areas—mostly poor and non-White—have higher lead poisoning rates than Flint, Michigan.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Evrim’s existence implicated yours. It implied you, too, were nothing more than a machine—a swarm of preprogrammed impulses iterating endlessly. If Evrim was a conscious thing, and made, then maybe you were made as well. A construct made of different materials. A skeleton walking around, sheathed in meat, fooled into thinking it has free will.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea