Sarah Be

“The airlock opened before me, edgeless vacuity beyond. There were no winds here, no crashing waves. Only the cold constancy of stars, to which I was just a crude bit of wet carbon, a flake of skin you brush aside. My pain and pettiness and mistakes and inadequacies did not matter. I did not matter. Nothing we did out here mattered. Nothing we could or would ever do would matter, in the face of this.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“when loud people go quiet, they are either desperately sad or doing something they shouldn’t be doing,”
― Salma El-Wardany, These Impossible Things

“But I’m not a moth. I’m human. And in humans, there are far more stages than just two. I could not have predicted each version of me that I shifted into, but through my history, one constant has always remained true: change itself. I might not be able to return to the other Ariadnes, but I would not always be the Ariadne floating in front of the mirror, either.”
― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

“Please try to remember that books aren’t always an escape; sometimes books teach us things. They show us the world; they don’t hide it.”
― Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List