Edward

“Some part of me, too, no matter how hard I tried to convince the surveyor to come with me, welcomed the chance to explore alone, to not be dependent on, or worried about, anyone else.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“...Alecto's eyes."
A ripple of ice over the face. A hardening of the mouth. He said quietly, "Don't call her -"
"ALECTO ALECTO ALECTO!" repeated Mercy shrilly. The other lyctors flinched each time she said it, as though it were an oral stab. "John, you are trying to start a fight with me to get out of the fight I am trying to have with you, which is a painfully domestic tactic.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“I’ve just never met someone like you," as if I were a stranger from another town or an eccentric guest accompanying a mutual friend to a dinner party. It was a strange thought to hear from the mouth of the woman who had birthed and raised me, with whom I shared a home for eighteen years, someone who was half me. My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line—generational, cultural, linguistic—we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other’s expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War