Lois Young

“This institution of higher education had no such concept as mercy.”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“Mensah sent me a private message through the feed: I hope you’re all right. Because you need me. I don’t know where that came from. All right, it came from me, but she was my client, I was a SecUnit. There was no emotional contract between us. There was no rational reason for me to sound like a whiny human baby.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“There are words that are simply trash, refuse, they turn into nothing immediately after they are spoken. Others throw shadows, hideous and pathetic, and sometimes gorgeous and powerful, capable of saving a dying soul. But only a few of these words become human beings and pronounce other words. And everyone in the world has a chance of encountering someone whom he himself spoke out loud . . .”
― Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra

“For every tale carved in rock there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spiderwebs.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea