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“I asked him had he ever seen this Anna Gloria? Was she real, or was she only allegorical?
"That depends," he said. "What is the difference?”
― Aaron Thier, Mr. Eternity

“I am going to have a grilled cheese sandwich and think about this precarious situation.”
― Isabel Quintero, Gabi, A Girl in Pieces

“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“There is nothing safe about the darkness of this city and its stink. Well, I have abrogated all claim to safety, coming here. It is better to discuss it as though I had chosen. That keeps the scrim of sanity before the awful set. What will lift it?”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren