Jamie

“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

“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

“Deadline-induced quality issues: a problem all over the galaxy.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary