Elena Hect

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe; it gives life back to those who no longer exist.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“The reason magical girls exist is because they needed their power the most. In other words, before a magical girl awakens her powers, she’s the weakest person in the world.”
― Park Seolyeon, A Magical Girl Retires

“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

“The name the man had chosen, it turned out, was Thirty-Six All-Terrain Tundra Vehicle, a revelation that produced in both Mahit and Three Seagrass a kind of stunned silence.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire