Niamh

“The same joy is in a stone which, thrown aloft, hesitates a little at the height of its flight and then rushes down to the ground. It is the same with a man when in his final convulsion he takes a last deep breath and dies.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Glass Town Game

“Am I a person or a weapon?"
Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person."
"You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne