Elena Hect

“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

“Sometimes I think that’s what love is, really—giving each other matching scars.”
― Ava Reid, Fable for the End of the World

“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