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“The beats of this particular story are music to my ears, and I'm certainly not complaining, but they're not the beats I'm used to. Then again, not everything has a perfect structure: a beginning, middle, and end. Not every tale has an act-three synthesis and a dark night of the soul.
Sometimes life just is.”
― Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

“You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.”
― Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City

“For my entire existence, at least the parts I could remember, I had done nothing but accept the inevitable. I was tired of it.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn’t wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition