Lucas

“Yeah. I mean, I work in a coffee shop. People here don’t even see it; it’s like this boring job for them—but every day people say hello to me; every day I meet someone new, who is round and bright and—scattery, made out of parts, plans and fears and love and worry and I don’t even know what. I don’t know how to explain it. Random and meaningful and beautiful. I know that doesn’t make sense.”
― Kij Johnson, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

“Of course, he had always been wise in the ways of cats, valuing them above entire races, many men, and most women.”
― Kij Johnson, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

“I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War