Jennifer

“You are gullible. Surrounded by people you don't know, with your leaders even less knowable, and you are gullible. Someone says a thing to you strongly enough, you believe them. You take confidence for truth. We don't do that. Someone says a thing, we tell them to show us how it is true...But you let people with strong words tell you what the truth is. Kings, emperors, tyrants. You are about the many for the few, for the one.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“I’m not really a suffragist. I mean, I’m not a formal member of the Association.”

“Nor am I, and yet I persist in having all manner of opinions and observations.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“It wasn't that Rove was a genius-level intellect, but he had a very specific set of skills. Lucas wasn't qualified to diagnose sociopathy, but Rove was capable of telling anyone anything, making utterly convincing promises and being bound by none of it. Rove loved Rove first, things useful to Rove second. And nothing else.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden

“What's as perfect as a girl stopped dead, midformation? Girl as blank slate. Girl as reflection of your desires, unmarried by her own. Girl as sacrifice to the idea of girl. Girl as a series of childhood photographs, all marked with the aura of girl who will die young, as if even the third grade portrait photographer should have seen it written on her face, that this was a girl who would only ever be a girl.
The bystander, the voyeur, even the perpetrator—they're all off the hook when the girl was born dead.
On the internet and on TV, they love that.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions for You