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“Oh, I know”, she said. She clenched her fist and looked to the side for a moment. Then back to me with a burning gaze I’d never seen before. “Dr. Grace. You’re a coward and you’re full of shit.” I winced. “If you really cared so much about the children, you’d get on that ship without hesitation. You could save billions of them from the apocalypse instead of preparing hundreds of them for it.” I shook my head. “It’s not about that—” “Do you think I don’t know you, Dr. Grace?!” she yelled. “You’re a coward and you always have been. You abandoned a promising scientific career because people didn’t like a paper you wrote. You retreated to the safety of children who worship you for being the cool teacher. You don’t have a romantic partner in your life because that would mean you might suffer heartbreak. You avoid risk like the plague”. I stood up. “Okay, it’s true! I’m afraid! I don’t want to die! I worked my ass off on this project and I deserve to live! I’m not going, and that’s final! Get the next person on the list—that Paraguayan chemist. She wants to go!” She slammed her fist on the table. “I don’t care who wants to go. I care who’s most qualified! Dr. Grace, I’m sorry, but you are going on that mission. I know you’re afraid. I know you don’t want to die. But you’re going”.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“A wolf in pastel shirts and thick rimmed glasses of a sheep.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girls Guide to Murder By Holly Jackson Collectors Edition 4 Books Set

“She’s so stunning, yet so stubbornly oblivious to how the sunset behind dulls in comparison to the vibrance that is her.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless

“I must tell you how I carry you about in me like a growth I should excise with my knife - it is weighty and black, it ACHES, it gives out something in my bloodstream, in all the sore endings od my nerves - but I could not cut it out and live!”
― Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent