Evangelina

“Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“It's like a challenge. To change yourself and let others change you.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“But they meant a noninclusive “we.” Not for the first time, Laurence thought this was one of the annoyingly incommunicative features in the English language. Much like the inability to distinguish between “x-or” and “and/or,” the lack of delineation between “x-we” and “in-we” was a conspiracy of obfuscation, designed to create awkwardness and exacerbate peer pressure—because people tried to include you in their “we” without your consent, or you thought you were included and then the rug got pulled out from under you.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky