Emi

“I think I’ve found the worst feeling,” he mutters.
“Helplessness,” says Spock promptly, like he’s thought about this before. “Being unable to do anything.”
“Yeah, helplessness is pretty bad. But for me,” he says, looking at the picture they’ve put up of her, of Natalie and Sam posing together in front of the zoo, holding hands and smiling like the sun, “it’s knowing you could have done something. And you didn’t.”
― luminousbeings, You Don't Have To

“It was the story of a handful of children who were told to die, and refused. They were told that others deserved to eat, not them, and they fought back. They wanted to live. And we thought, if seven children could lead a rebellion…if they could risk everything for the chance of freedom, then so could we.
...
He recognizes it immediately. It’s the Orion slave girl revolt flag, the background a deep amethyst like the Orion sky, with…With seven stars.Seven children.

Sam. Erika. Tom. Natalie. Kevin. Baby.
And me.”
― luminousbeings, You Don't Have To

“There is no plan for what comes next.
She may die, and her eyes look into that abyss and feed her with a terror of extinction, of un-being, that is perhaps the legacy of all life.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time

“Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society.
In practice, even Human eyes can see it isn’t quite as advertised. He has no doubt today’s Fabian has far better prospects than the Fabian of a century ago, but the playing field still needs some rolling before it is level.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin