Jamie Benner

“what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“We have no prisons, after all." I thought about that, and found that I knew what prisons were. Humans often locked up their lawbreakers in cages. Prisons. "No Ina prisons? Why?" "None of us are willing to spend our lives in prison with the lawbreakers. Maintaining a prison isn't quite as unpleasant as being a prisoner in one, but it's bad enough. And levying fines would be meaningless. It's too easy for us to get money form the human population. For lesser crimes, most likely we amputate something.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Fledgling

“Each night passed with a devastating sameness.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“All men labor under some impingements on their freedom; none is absolutely at liberty.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo