Scott

“Just because some of what led Earth to this crisis is our fault, yours mine, doesn't mean we can't still do real good. We're still here. Alive. We have the ability to act, and choose, and achieve. That's real. Even if it seems dwarfed by past mistakes, those mistakes aren't a negative number, they don't cancel out the good things we do now, don't make an insurmountable pit we have to climb back out of to start at zero. We can do good, and our pasts don't take that possibility away, not while we still live and breathe. And try.”
― Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars

“Inside every battery is a piece of a storm when you think about it”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“We don’t get to choose which battles we’re born into,” she says. “The only thing we get is to choose what we'll do. Will we join the fight? Or will we turn our backs?”
― Nick Fuller Googins, The Great Transition

“parts of the Twenty-First Century were like a little golden age for gender, people starting to mix and match and choose and question and make all kinds of new things with it,”
― Ada Palmer, Perhaps the Stars