Keegan Taylor

“He felt himself disappear into his heart and guts, ignoring the risk of detection and capture that even this anonymous contact would pose. *Hayam*, his mother would call it: love that stumbles over the earth in broken ecstasy.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

“Sounds like quite the existential crisis. Perhaps consider having it elsewhere.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Here I had no idea what I was even meant to do, and if I didn't like it, still, I wanted to neglect my duties deliberately, and not just because I was a stupid girl who didn't know what they were.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

“It's not fair," Linus said, staring off into nothing. "The way some people can be. But as long as you remember to be just and kind like I know you are, what those people think won't matter in the long run. Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as you remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea