Eliza

“(M)emories are often amalgams of truth and fiction, sewn together in our heads by our subconscious to support our personal beliefs about the world.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Part of me wonders if the sluggers send pervy pics back to their home planet for their alien buddies to mock. Check out this mutant we caught. They call it a teenager. It's got five arms, but one is tiny and deformed. It's not really deformed, I swear.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmental stewards than other peoples or parts of contemporary society] to justify fair treatment of native peoples, we imply that it would be OK to mistreat them if that assumption could be refuted. In fact, the case against mistreating them isn't based on any historical assumption about their environmental practices: it's based on a moral principle, namely, that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate or exterminate another people.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“When the days are darkest, dear, you latch on to happiness wherever you find it.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants