Siham Roby

“That’s not the same. What happened to you, to your species, it’s . . . it doesn’t even compare.’ ‘Why? Because it’s worse?’ She nodded. ‘But it still compares. If you have a fractured bone, and I’ve broken every bone in my body, does that make your fracture go away? Does it hurt you any less, knowing that I am in more pain?”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. Of that I am sure. The human condition in an exploding universe would not have been altered one iota if, rather than live as I have, I had done nothing but carry a rubber ice-cream cone from closet to closet for sixty years.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

“Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.”
― Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

“Body sizes can be remarkable for their variations from accepted norms, but still explain almost nothing about the lives led inside those bodies.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird