Daniel Brusilovsky

“I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.”
― John Varley, The Persistence of Vision

“And for you? She might be you, kiddie.” Nona found herself sighing again, like her body wanted to let out all its sound at once. One of her ears felt slightly blocked, and when she tilted her head and blew her nose and pulled at her earlobe a little trickle of water came out. “What if I don’t like me?” she said. But Pyrrha didn’t seem to understand. “Well, you’ll probably start visiting clubs and trying to hit on the dancers, and going from relationship to relationship not really being able to commit.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“If my aim is to prove I am “enough,” the project goes on to infinity—because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“He said: When they called me up and said the cryo project was over she looked at me and she just said, There they go, John.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth