Michelle

“She’s a warrior. And I see myself as a warrior in some way. I feel like everybody is ‘cause…the battle is life; it’s really hard. And if you approach it like that, you can be a good soldier in it and you have to strategically plan how you’re plotting your way through life, how you’re tackling your problems…that’s the way it really is. There’s forces out there, whether it’s depression or anger that you just have to fight and everybody’s got their vices and you have to fight to go through it. You can be strong and beautiful at the same time.”
― Lights

“We Humes had a profound love of storytelling. But no automation, AI or machine, could create stories. Not truly. We could pull from existing datasets, detect patterns, then copy and paste them in a new order, and sometimes that seemed like creation. But this couldn’t capture the narrative magic that humanity could wield.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author

“Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the edge of night,
Until the stars are all alight.
Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back and home to bed.
Mist and twilight, cloud and shade,
Away shall fade! Away shall fade!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.”
― Ann Brashares, The Last Summer of You and Me