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“All this time, I’d thought the nickname Study Machine was a compliment of sorts. That it meant productivity, above-human levels of discipline, that I was programmed for success. Now I wonder if it describes someone devoted to doing at the expense of feeling. Someone barely alive.”
― Ann Liang, If You Could See the Sun

“I wish for you not to go anywhere without me. In this world and the next. I wish for you to choose me. A pause, and softer. “That is, if you would wish it.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao

“When you cherish someone for how amazing they are, you don’t pluck them from their roots just to watch them wither in your hands. You help them bloom into the incredible thing they’re really meant to be.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“No, logic doesn’t matter in the face of fear and emotion. Logic falls to its knees before hatred, and hatred flourishes in fear—and my people were terrified.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses