Andi Ahern

“I don’t care about your task. That’s not what’s important. That should never have been the most important thing. What’s important is that you were good girls who – who found out how wrong things are. And you died, and you were probably scared when it happened. That’s so unfair, and I am so, so angry about it. I wish you had been here so we could’ve helped each other. I wish we could’ve been friends. Maybe we could’ve gotten out of here together.”
― Becky Chambers, A Closed and Common Orbit

“Cursed or not, she drew her bow across as she would draw her breath. Queer or not, she would play with a cursed bow and be called an abomination. Trans or not, deviant or not, that did not mean there was anything wrong with her love.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“You damned fool.” She pushes her forehead into theirs again, like a buck locking antlers, angry and intimate. Her fingertips slip against their jaw. Her breath puffs against their mouth. They would do it again. They gave the first half of their life to killing one person, but the rest of their life will be for keeping this one alive—”
― Bethany Jacobs, On Vicious Worlds

“Why did being human hurt so much? Why couldn’t she have been different, without a soul, without worth? Why couldn’t she have been the thing her parents might have wanted?”
― Ryka Aoki, Light From Uncommon Stars