Alexa

“...you can't put nothing past these southern boys. They just sit around waiting for somebody to kill their brother so they can get started on some vengeance. It's like a dang vocation with them”
― Alden Bell, The Reapers are the Angels

“What did this portend? He still breathed, the instruments did not change, his heart beat on. But he called to Peter. Did this mean that he longed to live the life of his child of the mind, Young Peter? Or in some kind of delirium was he speaking to his brother the Hegemon? Or earlier, his brother as a boy. Peter, wait for me. Peter, did I do well? Peter, don't hurt me. Peter, I hate you. Peter for one smile of yours I'd die or kill. What was his message?”
― Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind

“Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.”
― Ian McDonald, Brasyl

“Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Shadowed Sun