Emi

“God, it would have been so different.
We could have finished all the arguments with make-up sex rather than trying to kill each other, and you would have eventually got busted (or not) and I would have visited you every so often in prison to bicker with you over the visitor phone, bitching and sparring yet gazing into each other’s eyes the whole time. You would have smiled at me, I would have pressed my palm against the glass, and Freddie Lounds would have taken covert photos of me leaving and run snide articles about me being a prison widow.
And now we’re here instead, and we’ve made it too significant.”
― MissDisoriental, The Shape of Me Will Always Be You

“Natáhla se pro koblihu s nugátovou náplní. Příšerně tady ztloustnu. Ian mě už nebude chtít, najde si nějakou štíhlejší a mladší, třeba malou Elu. S chutí se do koblihy zakousla. Mrzáček s krátkýma nohama, hm. A nadělám s tím něco? Nenadělám.”
― Jana Rečková, Mlok 2001

“Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human myth figures whose outsize griefs and loves and rages were applauded by ancient audiences as noble, right and true.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“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