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“I can only hope that they have the kind of truth that we sometimes find in myths.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

“Should you choose to denounce me, I will understand your decision. All I ask in return is that you remember this as well--that you are not alone. Whether you are suffering or feeling powerless, you stand with countless others throughout history who faced oppression and fought to hold on to the love and beauty in their lives. You are not alone; if you recall nothing else from these memories, please hold on to this feeling of solidarity, this unyielding wind carrying our dreams of a better future.

Nobody can take that away.

It belongs to us all. I promise you: it will always belong to us all.”
― Yiming Ma, These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

“Where were you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“I allow myself, for the gash of a moment, to remember what I once possessed: the abyssal ocean, the song in those depths like swimming down the black throat of a god; the searing colors moting my sisters' coils, sapphire and quartz crushed into constellations and prisms of incandescence spiraling through the dark, our tails in endless, restless motion; our mother's eyes colossal, phosphorescent; our father's ribs, still studded with our egg sacs, his heartbeat in our veins. I'd been happy there.”
― Cassandra Khaw, The Salt Grows Heavy