Mary

“Throw any single life away as if it holds no meaning and how will your own life be valued thereafter?”
― Mark Lawrence, The Girl and the Stars

“But I do know books—and that meant there was nothing she couldn’t know, eventually. That was a magic in and of itself.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“more people were incarcerated for drug crimes than violent crimes every year from 1993 to 2009.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“Evrim’s existence implicated yours. It implied you, too, were nothing more than a machine—a swarm of preprogrammed impulses iterating endlessly. If Evrim was a conscious thing, and made, then maybe you were made as well. A construct made of different materials. A skeleton walking around, sheathed in meat, fooled into thinking it has free will.”
― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea