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“I carry exile in my heart. It animates my poetry and my politics; I will never be free of it, having lived outside of Teixcalaan for so long. I will always be measuring the distance between myself and a person who remained in the heart of the world; between the person I would have been had I stayed and the person I have become under the pressure of the frontier. When the Seventeenth Legion came through the jumpgate in bight star-snatching ships and filled up the Ebrekti sky in the shapes of my home, I was at first afraid. A profound discontinuity. To know fear in the shape of one's own face.”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“Around other people, you couldn’t keep doing the same thing. They forced you to adapt. Grow.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark

“She liked to think of herself as a good, devout woman, but on the other hand, she despised the idea that anything was unknowable.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“What if forgiveness allowed for anger and rage and grief? What if it preserved mistrust and could keep a safe distance for its victims? What if forgiveness acknowledged hurt rather than promising healing; what if it uniquely reckoned with the permanence of a wound, rather than hastily dressing that wound with a thin reconciliation?”
― Matthew Ichihashi Potts, Forgiveness: An Alternative Account