Erin

“There comes from this, then, at least a working definition of a soul: one’s capacity to sit with the mysteries of a thing that cannot in any rational way, be understood – only felt, only moved through. And sometimes that thing is so grotesque — what we do to one another so grotesque — that sitting with it feels an affront to the notion of art as a conduit of beauty. Still, sit. Sit.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“We need to get away from the binary nature of sex assignment,’ Crews ventured. ‘There’s a continuum, with males at one end and females at the other, and variability is continuous between those two types.”
― Lucy Cooke, Bitch: On the Female of the Species

“It's wild, isn't it," Rummy said, "how there are all these stories that played out before we even existed. And their residue is all around us, all the time, but we don't even know it. Sometimes I wonder how much of me is my own, you know?”
― GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

“Yes, apocalypse. We’ve had that over and over. But we always survived. We’re still here. And we’ll still be here, even if the power and the radios don’t come back on and we never see any white people ever again.”
― Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow