Elena Hect

“My hunger roused me. In the depths of the sea, I drew upon my greed, my insatiable ambition. I cried out to my shadow self, my truest self, and reached for her through her iron imprisonment. I understood now why I was called a perversion. It was unnatural for a woman to have this kind of ambition, and yet I existed. My existence was my birthright, and it would be my justification.”
― K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire

“Animosity built higher in me, brick by brick. Here it was again, that old ugly impulse. The first and maybe most powerful thing I’d ever felt about Wist.
You aren’t allowed to do that.
If anyone hurts her, it’s going to be me.”
― Hiyodori, Clematis and the Queen of the Void

“And the continuity of endocrine response worked for everyone, Stationer or Teixcalaanlitzlim or something else: endocrine response said, in that brutal language of the flesh, This person has had their hands inside you, and you welcomed them in. Let’s do it again. Here are nice chemicals to help.”
― Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace

“While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

We are what's left.
We are what must survive.”
― Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory