Neila

“She’s staring at me, her face unreadable in the same way a star chart is unreadable when there are no lines to mark the constellations. It’s not that you can’t make out a shape, it’s that you can make out so many shapes you’ll never know which one is right. If I wanted to, I could read longing in her distance. But if I’m honest, it’s probably just my own reflected back by her indifference.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“I don't realize how many years I've been alone until I warm under a gift as simple as someone's undivided attention.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds

“Soft?" He says it like the word is an impossibility. "Soft like a diamond, maybe."
He means to insult her, but he doesn't know my little sister has waited years for someone to see her and know she can cut.”
― Micaiah Johnson, The Space Between Worlds