Miranda

“don’t know how much time you’ve spent around Boston, but the streets are designed to prevent anyone from successfully figuring out where they’re trying to go.”
― Linda Holmes, Evvie Drake Starts Over

“But, I did indeed invent an ultimate rule.” “Tell me.” “Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“Besides, no one is innocent in this world. Why, go up to your maternity ward! All those smiling parents and their newborns? Murderers and victims. Every one of them. ‘The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer

“(In Vastai this is usually part of a petition for the God of the Silent to send one a good husband and a happy marriage. These three, however, were asking for the forest to preserve their friendship so long as they lived, and keep undesirable complications like husbands far from their doors.)”
― Ann Leckie, The Raven Tower