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“One generation removed from the enterprise of reproduction, grandparents saw children as genuinely open possibilities. Unlike parents, who needed to see the best parts of themselves duplicated in their offspring, grandparents rarely had such prideful agendas -- and for that very reason, they ironically imprinted more of themselves on the young.”
― Linda Rui Feng, Swimming Back to Trout River

“Memory is a choice. You said that once, with your back to me, the way a god would say it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“To be or not to be. That is the question. A question, yes, but not a choice.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I don’t give a shit who wins this war, Garden or the Agency, towards whose shift the arc of the universe bends. But maybe this is how we win, Red. You and me. This is how we win.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War