Frida

“It's a choice I made, getting in this thing with you, whatever it is. But don't mistake me, I'm not interested in filling in for a ghost.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons

“How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid. Of course they were right. Women were likely, as women, to take the next generations part, not this one's; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind

“The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily. The best thing about it was that they could see that you’d muted them, and they couldn’t do a damn thing about it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“He scrounged for something to say, and found a meagre offering: “I did love you.”
But I loved him more.
He couldn’t bring that to life, not aloud, not with his own mouth.”
― Lee Mandelo, Summer Sons