Rebecca

“Your departure crashes like a thunder, and the timbers of the house shake with the force of the space you left behind.”
― Nghi Vo, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

“And I think about all the things we could be
if we were never told our bodies were not built for them.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“At the core, you’ve got to get university certification for parenting, just as you do for, say, being a doctor or an engineer. No offence to you or your species, but going into the business of creating life without any sort of formal prep is . . .’ He laughed. ‘It’s baffling. But then, I’m biased.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky