Evangelina

“... was that weird?"
"Kind of. Yeah."
"Good weird, or bad weird?"
"Just... weird. Weirdness is value neutral...”
― 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

“his life story was the story of Patricia and him, after all, for better or worse, and if she ended his life might go on, but his story would be over. He tripped”
― 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