Joseph

“I cannot wait for her to stop being a teenager.” “I can,” Nib said. “Do you know how impossible it’s going to be to boss her around when she’s twenty?”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“What do your crazy speciests do?” Kizzy asked.
Sissix shrugged. “Live on gated farms and have private orgies.”
“How is that any different than what the rest of you do?”
“We don’t have gates and anybody can come to our orgies.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet