Amanda Keating

“People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“Let my country die for me.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“But why? Red has done what she came to do, she thinks. But wars are dense with causes and effects, calculations and strange attractors, and all the more so are wars in time. One spared life might be worth more to the other side than all the blood that stained Red’s hands today. A fugitive becomes a queen or a scientist or, worse, a poet. Or her child does, or a smuggler she trades jackets with in some distant spaceport. And all this blood for nothing.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“She is useless to the war effort like this. Might as well shovel snow. But she is a hero, and heroes can shovel snow if they like.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War