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This Dreaming Isle by Dan Coxon

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Enough of happy. I’m sick of happy. The prison of it, a weight on my lungs. The thing I should be aiming to feel, and make others feel. It’s a relief when the pleasant young man asks me instead, ‘Can you remember a time in the village when ...more

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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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“Kapera was Nanoannie’s friend, and therefore she’d figure a way not to die. Friends are not supposed to die.”
― Mary Turzillo, Mars Girls -- A YA Science Fiction Adventure Novel

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“By now, the smell had become like another person in the room. I had an image of it dancing around me in a shiny seventies disco outfit and John Travolta hair.”
― Desirina Boskovich, It Came from the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction

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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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“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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