Aśku

“Do you not find consciousness alone to be the most exhilarating thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Most days I am a museum of things I want to forget.”
― E.E. Scott

“So she’s experienced all too well how love believes and trusts in everything. But can love also forgive everything? Can you be forgiven for sins you’re unable to regret? If you know with your entire being that you would do it all over again? That if you were to permit yourself a single sin here in this life, this is the sin you would choose?
Can she ever hope for forgiveness? Will she ever be able to forgive herself?”
― Klara Hveberg, Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine

“If we want change, or good fortune, or solace, we have to create it for ourselves.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built