Victoria

“The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“How the months fly when you take a lot of drugs.”
― George Alec Effinger, When Gravity Fails

“Since the festival had started, I had been taking note of a potential hostile that Amena had been associating with. Evidence was mounting up and my threat assessment was nearing critical. Things like: (1) he had informed her that his age was comparable to hers, which was just below the local standard for legal adult, but my physical scan and public record search indicated that he was approximately twelve Preservation standard calendar years older, (2) he never approached her when any family members or verified friends were with her, (3) he stared at her secondary sexual characteristics when her attention was elsewhere, (4) he encouraged her to take intoxicants that he wasn’t ingesting himself, (5) her parental and other related humans all assumed she was with her friends when she was seeing him and her friends all assumed she was with family and she hadn’t told either group about him, (6) I just had a bad feeling about the little shit.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her.”
― Annie Ernaux