Jamie

“Because I didn’t want to. And when it comes to a person’s body, that is all the reason there ever needs to be. Doesn’t matter if it’s a decision about a new pair of legs or how you like to trim your claws or—’ she gave Pei a piercing look ‘—what to do about an egg. I didn’t want to. You don’t want to. That’s it.’

‘But—’ Pei started.

Speaker leaned forward. ‘That. Is all. It ever needs to be.”
― Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

“Well, parents have to say things like that. They’re required to see the best in their children, otherwise living with the little sociopaths would drive a person mad.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

“It's a bullet-point line in the graduation handbook: As a general rule, regardless of the specific situation in which you find yourself, at every step you must take care to preserve or widen the number of your options.”
― Naomi Novik, The Last Graduate

“Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.”
― Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War