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The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

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Remember that, my love. The people who want to burn you alive will find a reason to do it, whether you pretend to agree with them or not.”

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“Today she looked menacingly into the mirror and said: “I’m Sierra María Santiago. I am what I am. Enough.” She sighed. These days were spooky enough without her talking to herself. “More than enough.”
― Daniel José Older, Shadowshaper

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“I want to keep people safe, so I try to learn all I can,” Evelyn said as her heart swelled with an intense feeling of recognition. “About minds, hearts, sexuality, gender, identity, your whole life, it’s all important… Wish I’d known a lot more a long time ago. It makes everything easier.” “Just having the words helps,” he said quietly. “Yeah,”
― RoAnna Sylver, Chameleon Moon

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“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“Yes. They had the guts to believe that the universe was big enough to hold things so strange—thinking things—and that we had to learn from them.” It gave me a lot to think about. Maybe it takes a little craziness to make humanity grow. Maybe if you see a Face where telescopes can’t see it, you’re for real seeing humanity’s dreams. Mother surprised”
― Mary Turzillo, Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel

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“Well… I want to get better,” he said quietly. “So whatever you can do for me, that’d just be great, okay? I don’t like not knowing where I am or what’s going on or—it feels like falling. I’m off-balance and I don’t like it. I know I could just ask people until I know everything but I want… I just want everything back, that’s all. So how do I get it back?” “Well,”
― RoAnna Sylver, Chameleon Moon

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