Megalion

“I’ll only tell you if you understand that when a person tells you what they want of you, they’re not deciding for you. It’s their opinion, not your truth. Got it?”
― Becky Chambers, Record of a Spaceborn Few

“Yet somehow you fit in here as well as with them, and I find that even more mysterious than anything else about you. How can you move so well in two different worlds?” Silver Veil worked on his muscles for a little longer before she answered. “Perhaps—” she hesitated. “Perhaps because I have lived long enough that I no longer pay a great deal of attention to what is different, only to what is the same,”
― Mercedes Lackey, The White Gryphon

“To some Humans, the promise of a patch of land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn’t belong.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“It seemed paper notes were coming back into favor at the FBI, since electronic records could be altered and juries were increasingly suspicious of them.”
― Douglas Preston, Dead Mountain