Ariel

“There won't be any sex for the first three hundred thousand words... that's how you know this is an asexual-to-demisexual story.”
― Christopher X. Sullivan, The Book of Beginnings: It's Just Us Here

“That’s why you used the mirror. That’s why you finally reached out to me. What the fuck did she do to you that made you decide that I was the lesser evil?” I started walking back toward the surface, my hand steady on Rik’s back as he ducked beneath the low ceiling. “She fucked with someone I love.”
― Joely Sue Burkhart, Queen Takes Triune

“All I ever wanted was for our story— the story of me and Mark told through the eyes of a non-sexual narrator— I wanted that story to be available so that other people who might never see themselves in print could have someone to identify with.”
― Christopher X. Sullivan, The Friend

“Some were statues of the dead, mostly the children whose hashtags had been turned into battle cries during the revolution. Others were giant sculptures with thousands of names carved into them, because too many people had died and if you made statues of everyone, Lucille would be filled with stone figures and there’d be no room for the alive ones.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet