Leijette

“You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there's nothing that can keep us from completing it.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“We aren't human."

"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Though I no longer presumed to have a conscience, I have never once lacked feelings.”
― Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele