Ariel

“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

“The angels took the laws and changed them, tore down those horrible statues of rich men who’d owned people and fought to keep owning people. The angels believed and the people agreed that there was a good amount of proper and deserved shame in history and some things were just never going to be things to be proud of.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Pet

“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